tagged w/ Street Photography
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The Street Photography of Alex Webb: Sweet Home Chicago
“Photographs from the Streets of Chicago” is a wonderful video photo-essay, a collection of photographs by the acclaimed contemporary street photographer, Alex Webb. Unlike street photographers of the Chicago School (Callahan, Metzger, Sturr and Sterling), Alex Webb has chosen to photograph the city’s multitudinous character in color. Having spent most of his three-decades long career shooting outside of the United States, Webb turns his lens to Chicago during this very important election year.
This piece includes a number of color photographs and the HD video photo-essay, an exploration of Chicago and the Loop.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/the-street-photography-of-alex-webb-sweet-home-chicago/The Street Photography of Alex Webb: Sweet Home Chicago
“Photographs from the... more
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“A Year in New York” is an enchanting, emotionally moving five-minute documentary short film by videographer Andrew Clancy, accompanied by Irish singer/songwriter James Vincent McMorrow’s beautiful song “We Don’t Eat.” Sometimes words cannot do justice to life in a big city, as “A Year in New York” so entrancingly confirms. The film reveals that despite the chaos that surrounds urban life, there is a common thread of excitement and resilient optimism.
“A Year in New York” presents the viewer with a stream of quintessential New York visual imagery, from the No. 7 train rolling past Silvercup Studios' iconic film and television complex, to die-hard Rangers fans losing it at Madison Square Garden; from runners and rollerbladers cruising through city parks, to late-night, outdoor summer concerts; from blinking beacons on NYPD police cars, to the sparkling lights of the colossal Rockefeller Christmas Tree, resulting in a stunning homage to the city that never sleeps and to its lucky inhabitants.
This piece includes a number of wonderful high-resolution color photographs, a magnificent photo-gallery and the entrancing documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/a-year-in-new-york-a-beautiful-visual-symphony/“A Year in New York” is an enchanting, emotionally moving five-minute... more
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“Just to be Very Clear: No!” OMG, this photograph is just perfect! Although obvious, at the same it's title so ironic. What a great picture and what a great title. At first I wondered if the other door said “Yes” rather than the traditional “In/Out” signs. Then it occurred to me there was probably a number on the other door indicating the street address.
And then I was imagining that the right hand door says “Way” or in these economic times maybe: “No Money!” Then I wondered, why was I overthinking this? I like the photographer's interpretation best: “Just to Be Very Clear.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/photo-of-the-day-just-to-be-very-clear/“Just to be Very Clear: No!” OMG, this photograph is just perfect!... more
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“Women are Beautiful” is a collection of photographs by Garry Winogrand (1928-1984), which is currently on exhibition in Barcelona at the Foundation Foto Colectania. Winogrand is considered to be one of the greatest innovators of twentieth-century American photography. Winogrand’s pictures are focused on the reflection of reality, with no retouching or other ideas added. Garry Winogrand represented a new American style in photography, which broke new ground in the emerging era of street photography.
Described as an undisciplined mixture of energy, ego, curiosity, ignorance, and street-smart naiveté, throughout the 1950s, the Bronx native photographed incessantly, mostly on the streets, working as a freelance photographer for a picture agency and eventually publishing journalistic images in numerous magazines. Around 1960, after being shown a copy of Walker Evans’s book “American Photographs,” Winogrand began to take a more artistic approach in his work.
Winogrand eventually published four books of photographs, including “Women Are Beautiful” in 1975, which was composed mostly of candid shots of anonymous women on the street. He knew like no other photographer of his time how to capture the social transformation of females in the 1960s and 1970s through his portraits of women, which stand as an allegory of women’s emancipation and of their new roles in society.
This piece includes a number of stunning high-resolution black-and-white photographs, a remarkable photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/garry-winogrand-women-are-beautiful/“Women are Beautiful” is a collection of photographs by Garry Winogrand... more
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“The Taxi Lights of Tokyo” is a wonderful collection of color photographs by New York City street photographer Joseph O. Holmes. It’s an incredible series of images, which captures the spirit of a city that glitters and shines much like Times Square. The photographs reflect a nighttime urban mood that seems always the same, with scenes that are enhanced by the colorful out-of-focus background of other lighted signs.
This piece presents a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/photos-of-the-day-the-taxi-lights-of-tokyo/“The Taxi Lights of Tokyo” is a wonderful collection of color photographs... more
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When John Maloof bid on a box of old photographic negatives at a 2007 estate auction, little did he know that he was stepping deep into the dark mystery of Vivian Maier. Maloof was searching for images to use in a book about the history of Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood. Instead, what he found were 30,000 images by Maier, who spent much of her time wandering Chicago and the world as a street photographer with a keen eye for capturing compelling images.
Since then, Maloof has amassed an archive of Maier’s life and work. Now, Maier’s photographs and life story are gaining attention, including at the Chicago Cultural Center, where the exhibit “Finding Vivian Maier: Chicago Street Photographer” opens on Friday. “There weren’t many women doing street photography in the ’50s and ’60s,” said Lanny Silverman, chief curator at the Cultural Center. “So this is very interesting and noteworthy. Beyond just the story of her life, she’s quite a good photographer.”
The details of Vivian Maier’s life are slowly coming to light. Maier was born in 1926 in New York City and spent much of her childhood in France. In 1951, she returned to New York and then in 1956 came to Chicago to work as a nanny for a North Shore family. Maier, who was a very a private person and a bit of a character, always had a Rolleiflex camera around her neck. Maier was a theater and movie buff; she was also a hoarder and a bit of a recluse, but she wasn’t afraid to walk the street with her camera and engage people. Maier seems to have been somewhat obsessed with using photography to document the world around her.
Vivian Maier’s work is the purest form of art; none of it was done for any commercial reason. Her images often focus upon women, children, the old and the poor. The influences in her pictures appear to range from the works of Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Diane Arbus and Helen Levitt.
This piece presents a number of high-resolution photographs, a memorable slide show and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/vivian-maier-discovering-chicagos-reclusive-street-photographer/When John Maloof bid on a box of old photographic negatives at a 2007 estate auction,... more
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“Just What I See” is a remarkable collection of iPhone photographs of New York City street life by Greg Schmigel. The series of black-and-white photographs offers a candid look at everyday moments in the lives of people and strangers on the streets and public places of the city. The images reveal a deeply personal sense of beauty evoked by the more simple aspects of life: the facial features of a stranger, a man’s gait, the shadows or reflections of a woman, the quiet smile on the face of a passing child. The photographs capture the beautiful, dreary, mundane, sad and sometimes outrageous features of daily life in the big city in a very intimately touching way.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution black-and-white photographs, as well as a fascinating slide show and a music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/just-what-i-see-photographs-of-new-york-city-street-life/“Just What I See” is a remarkable collection of iPhone photographs of New... more
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An American original and a self-taught photographer, Harry Callahan (1912-1999) was one of the first to do strictly art photography. Callahan became a major figure in American photography by means of his genius and work ethic. His photography was his life in many ways, and he told his life through his photography.
Callahan’s only education in photography consisted of attending lectures while a member of the Detroit Photo Guild. He experienced an exhibit of the photographs of Ansel Adams as an inspiration, and was similarly moved by the work of Alfred Stieglitz. Within eight years he’d become one of America’s most eloquent poets of the camera. Through the invitation of Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Callahan become part of the teaching staff of Chicago’s Institute of Design, a continuation of the Bauhaus school of thinking about art that blended in the work of artisans with the fine arts.
From the late 1940s to early 1960s, his central model and muse was his wife Eleanor Callahan, and after 1950, his daughter Barbara. By the 1970s he had begun to focus on color photography, and a number of those works are represented in this collection.
This piece includes a number of vintage color photographs, a slide show and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/harry-callahan-a-retrospective-collection-of-later-color-photography/An American original and a self-taught photographer, Harry Callahan (1912-1999) was... more
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Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee (1899-1968), was the son of an Austrian rabbi, who came with his family from Europe to New York City. Independent-minded, for a time he aimlessly drifted around, did odd jobs and lived in the city’s flophouses. Finally, he discovered photography, a revelation that transformed him into a man with an obsessive mission. From the 1930′s through the mid-1940′s, Weegee was a freelance crime and street photographer for New York City tabloids, ceaselessly prowling inner-city streets during the graveyard shift. He loved the darkest hours, because then he had the photographic turf all to himself, but also owing to the fact that the most evil of crimes are carried out at night, under the cover of darkness.
Always prepared, Weegee stalked the streets in a car equipped with a police radio, a typewriter, developing equipment, a supply of cigars and a change of underwear. He was a one-man photo factory: he drove to a crime scene, took the pictures, developed the film in his car trunk and delivered finished the prints himself. Weegee was well aware of social problems in the city, documenting the struggles of people living through the Depression, the sufferings of people who experienced segregation and violent racial bias attacks, and the hardships of indigent immigrants packed into already poverty-stricken, desolate and crime-ridden neighborhoods of the city, especially the Lower East Side.
Eventually, the glamor of Hollywood beckoned, and Weegee moved there in 1946, where he worked in the film industry as an actor, consultant and photographer. He socialized with big-name Hollywood stars and got small acting parts in films, but he never really felt like he fit into what he called “The Land of the Zombies” and moved back to Manhattan in 1951, where he lived until his death in 1968.
This piece includes a number of vintage black&white photographs, a slide show and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/weegee-remembering-the-american-photographer-who-first-made-night-noir/Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee (1899-1968), was the son of an Austrian rabbi,... more
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Mass gathering of the "I'm a photographer, not at terrorist" campaign in Trafalgar Square in central London at 12 noon on Saturday 23rd January, 2010 to protest against anti-terror legislation which impacts photographers. Section 44, or s44, is used by police to stop and search photographers, both amateur and professional. The concern is that it'll impact greatly on the visual historical record of our times.
A film by Paul Treacy
http://paultreacy.com
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http://www.demotix.com/news/228792/im-photographer-not-terroristMass gathering of the "I'm a photographer, not at terrorist" campaign... more
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W. Eugene Smith was one of mid-century America’s greatest photojournalists. In 1957, Smith moved into a loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, near West 28th Street, in the heart of what was then Manhattan’s commercial flower market. Over the next eight years, he shot over 1,000 rolls of film, many of them from his window, capturing a world in one block.
As it happened, Smith's next-door neighbor was jazz composer-arranger Hall Overton, and Smith was letting him use his loft as a rehearsal space for some of the era’s great jazz musicians. Not only did Smith photograph the musicians, he wired the whole building for sound, hooked up several tape recorders, and let the spools spin till they ran out, recording everything from jam sessions to conversations in the hallway.
This piece presents a number of great b&w photographs, two videos and a wonderful slide show.
Please visit my website to view the photographs and slide show, and to watch these two very remarkable videos:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/the-jazz-loft-photos-of-a-lost-new-york/W. Eugene Smith was one of mid-century America’s greatest photojournalists. In... more
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“Times Square” is an ongoing project by John Aron, a photographer who lives near Times Square/Hell’s Kitchen. Aron uses both traditional and modern techniques to achieve his goal of narrowing the focus of his black and white photographs in order to show what is most important in the scene. Monochrome seems well-suited to the city; New York City is best described in black and white, which captures it in a way that’s simply more dramatic, perhaps romantic.
The infatuation of photographers with Times Square must be almost as old as the square itself, and no wonder. It’s been the perfect place for the dramas and encounters that make great pictures, whether in the happy honky-tonk of the area’s glamorous days, decades ago when the neon lights really were the brightest on Broadway, or more recently, when squalor and crime overtook the area and the facades of the great theaters of the 1890’s along 42nd Street disappeared behind porn parlor marquees.
This piece presents a number of John Aron’s striking photographs of people in Times Square, a slide show of his remarkable photographs and two short videos.
To view these wonderful photographs, slide show and videos, please visit my website:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/times-square-the-characters-dramas-and-encounters-of-the-square/“Times Square” is an ongoing project by John Aron, a photographer who... more
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“Hamburger Eyes” is a 4-min. short documentary by Nick Fogarty about the photographers who put together the black and white photo-zine “Hamburger Eyes.” The photo-zine is centered on a collective of photographers living in San Francisco; it represents a movement that’s come to be known as “Lifestyle” photography, meaning that both the photographers and subject matter seem to be in their natural environment. The documentary captures images in a brilliant way. It’s very unique and certainly not your ordinary, boring photography.
This piece presents a number of remarkable black and white photographs, as well as the brilliant documentary short, “Hamburger Eyes.“Hamburger Eyes” is a 4-min. short documentary by Nick Fogarty about the... more
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19 minute film endeavouring to capture the festive atmosphere and some of the colourful characters of the G20 demo in the City of London on the eve of the G20 Summit. By photohumourist, Paul Treacy. If you like it, please pass it on. Thanks.
Paul Treacy19 minute film endeavouring to capture the festive atmosphere and some of the... more
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In an effort to raise a little capital for urgently needed new gear, I have put together two galleries of my street photography in hopes of selling some open edition prints. They are not expensive and would make for excellent gifts or an exciting addition to your print collection.
Images approximate between 12x8 and 13x9 inches on 11x14 inch Fuji Crystal Archive stock and sell for £35 apiece.
I need to raise an additional £500 to get video and audio equipment by summer's end for a series of short films I'm developing. I'm relatively new to motion capture but I see it as an increasingly important part of my professional activities going forward.
If you know anyone who might like some off-kilter street photography for their walls, then please let them know about this material. I would be enormously appreciative.
Many thanks.
Paul TreacyIn an effort to raise a little capital for urgently needed new gear, I have put... more
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Wow....there's so much great stuff going on in this scene. Those gangly streetlight creatures with their bright eyes, the gauntlet of cones and barriers, the grid of buildings in the background, and right there in the eye of the storm is this rumpled guy, his hair's like a dark condensed version of that smoky steam cloud. Yes, looks like the urban mic-mac guy's emerging from a disaster scene. Very dramatic...if only that guy was Will Smith, this could have been the poster for "I Am Legend."
This photograph captures a nice moment where everything works together, the way he walks, the bright traffic lights, the one-way sign on the right. Okay, so it's not really Will Smith...but there's so much going on around, so much drama, and yet he looks so utterly detached from it. So must be some kind of young Einstein, deeply pre-occupied with his theory-thingees as he quietly walks away from an experiment gone terribly awry.Wow....there's so much great stuff going on in this scene. Those gangly... more
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Helen Levitt, a major street photographer of the 20th century who captured fleeting moments of quiet drama on the streets of her native New York City for decades, died in New York at the age of 95. Ms. Levitt’s photography expressed the everyday ceremonies of innocence. The masterpieces in Ms. Levitt’s body of works are her photographs of children living their enthusiastically improvised lives.
Helen Levitt’s street photography spanned seven decades, photographs that were taken mostly throughout working-class neighborhoods. Her wonderfully candid black-and-white shots from the 1930s and 1940s, of urban children playing and ordinary people going about their daily lives, have inspired generations of photographers. Levitt was also a pioneer in color photography, beginning in 1959, when she received a Guggenheim grant to explore her familiar territory, but shifting from black-and-white to color.
This article presents a number of stunning vintage photographs, a video gallery and a remarkable slide show of Helen Levitt's photography.Helen Levitt, a major street photographer of the 20th century who captured fleeting... more
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The newer, lovelier version of my 2006 book. Lovers of street photography, visual wit and dogs will appreciate this book. I guarantee it.
http://photohumourist.comThe newer, lovelier version of my 2006 book. Lovers of street photography, visual wit... more
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