‘Street Photography - More Than Just A Snapshot’
Photographer Len Speier recently gave a presentation about street photography at the B&H Event Space
(Source: youtube.com)
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004, photographer)
“Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the picture as judgment that the photograph is good.” – Garry Winogrand (1928 -1984, street photographer)
Today is the birth date of Garry Winogrand, a master of street photography, born on January 14th, 1928. He photographed America in the sixties and seventies, capturing candid shots using a small Leica rangefinder with a wide angle lens so that subjects remained unaware. Only a small portion of his hundreds of thousands of images were developed or published, some of his books include The Animals, Public Relations, Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures, Winogrand 1964, and Figments from the Real World.
Photo via Masters of Photography
“Vivian led a very private life. She had no family, no close friends, she never married and never had children. My personal theory is that Vivian used photography as an outlet that may have compensated for the lack of these human needs. If she were to expose her work, being all that she really had, it may have made her vulnerable to criticism. This may be why she never showed her work, but it’s just a guess based on what I’ve learned about Maier.”
We chatted with John earlier in the year about Vivian’s work and story.
(via B&H Insights: A Chat with John Maloof: Curator of Vivian Maier’s Street Photography)
“The idea is almost sweet in its simpliticy, O’Beirne ties a disposable camera to a bench along with a sign instructing passersby to snap candid or posed shots of themselves. She revisits the site when the camera is full, develops the film and posts the resulting images on her tumblr page, New York Shots. Of course, many of the images fall into the category of typical snapshots, but peppered among them are some beautiful portraits and scenes of city life.”
(via Street Photography Project Leaves the Shooting to the Subjects | Popular Photography)
WNYC Street Shots: Joe Wigfall (by wnycradio)
If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph.
(via Magnum Blog / “Bruce Gilden” Archive) Photo via American Suburb X
