"A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view". Henri Cartier-Bresson Today we resumed our discussion of Street Photography...that we revisit at f8 every few years. Howard lead the discussion with a PowerPoint presentation way too big to include with this blogpost. In large part his presentation focused on classic street images that kindled our discussion. It was obvious again today that the subject was too vast to cover in just 1-2 sessions...or even an academic year. As usual, we could not agree on a single definition but as the editor of this blog I felt compelled to put one such definition in... In 1981, Joel Meyerowitz offered a definition of street photography as “central to the issue of photography . . . purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in with the history of painting and other art forms.” (Editor's Note: please apply your own definition and/or perspective to above). Clearly this type of photography is from or to the street, road, beach...frequently includes people going about their business interacting with their environment directly or indirectly in straight forward or whimsical way etc. Our discussion was aided today by a visitor Marc Todd, a street photographer advocate. Marc will come back and show his own images and aesthetic at a later session. Below are questions regarding street photography we either touched on today or would have liked to discuss...please note the "sp" is for street photography how did 35 mm change sp effect of color in sp effect of digital and iphone on sp effect of multiple exposure function in sp effect of video on sp how have the ethics of sp changed have the aesthetics changed in sp do people need to be part of sp as a primary focus of sp candid vs non candid that is a question in dp long lens vs short lens how much is intent vs chance a part of sp how wide is the street in sp…beaches still sp role of social conflict and politics in sp effect of social media platforms on sp influences of bresson, myerowitz, walker evans…robert frank “the aamericans” is the lyrical the norm…irony, juxtaposition is it fine art or documentary photography? about future of sp how important is “mindfulness” in sp Below are some references and links ...just a few The last part of today's session was devoted to f8'ers images of the street. I was hard pressed to exclude images from our blog post but it was necessary.... The 1st set is by Steve Lewis The 2nd set is by Jim Staub The 3rd set is by Howard Landau The 4th set is by Joe Loudermilk The 5th set is by John Holmes The next set is by Bill Wishner The last image is by Charley Kohlhase The last two images are a takeoff on the classic image by Robert Frank in "The Americans"....the first image is the original The image on the left is by Bill Wishner on the right by Joe Loudermilk
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