Seen in Mayfair, London - black and white London street photography by Linda Wisdom, a London born street photographer.
An exhibition at the Aperture Foundation gathers pictures taken by Alex Webb over more than 30 years, all across Mexico.
Photography duo Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb offer insight into the evolution of their practice, and why the genre of street photography isn’t so easy to define.
“I find my mam's images filled with tragedy but also joy. I see a celebration of a wonderful community who, although they had nothing, had each other and their imaginations.”
Documentary photography, street photography and photojournalism are closely related disciplines that share at least a few theoretical, practical and aesthetic ideologies, but what sets photojournalism apart is pretty simple — newsworthiness. Newsworthiness, in turn, embodies these three main elements: timeliness, objectivity, and narrative. The goal of photojournalistic work is to capture an event as it unfolds at any given moment. While photojournalism does present certain genre-specific constraints and everyone has their own way of presenting the world to viewers, there are a few general basic ideas that anyone interested in getting started with photojournalism will find beneficial. Conduct Some Research
They taught us the meaning of photography, the very smell of composition and the beautiful essence of lights and shadows. Their works teach us great insights on all aspects of photography. To say the least,
Dans les quartiers oubliés du Nord de la Grande-Bretagne de Thatcher, par votre photographe français préféré.
All photographs in this article are copyrighted by Martin Parr / Magnum Photos. Warning: Some of the shots in the book are NSFW as they show child nudity. One of my favorite color photography books…
Fred Herzog (b.1930, Germany) is a photographer known primarily for his photos of life in Vancouver, Canada. He worked professionally as a medical photographer. He was the associate director of the UBC Department of Biomedical Communication, and also taught at Simon Fraser University. He grew up in Stuttgart, but was evacuated from the city during the aerial bombardment of the Second World War. His parents died during the war (of typhoid and cancer), after which he dropped out of school and found work as a seaman on ships. He emigrated to Canada in 1952, living briefly in Toronto and Montreal before moving to Vancouver in 1953. He had taken casual photos since childhood, and began to take it seriously after moving to Canada. His work focuses primarily on "ordinary" people, the working class, and their connections to the city around them. He worked primarily with slide film (mostly Kodachrome), which limited his ability to exhibit, and also marginalized him somewhat as an artist in the 1950s and 60s when most work was in Black and White. However, he has been increasingly recognized in recent decades. His work has appeared in numerous books, and various galleries, including the Vancouver Art Gallery. [via wiki] Mexico City with Chevy, 1963 Hezog: Lucy, Georgia, 1968 "Photographic finesse has its place, but it can also get in the way. I was trying to show vitality. The pictures are about content, and more content. And if there is no content, take no picture. "It’s exactly the other way around now. 'Okay I’m going to take my clothes off, and I’m going to stand there in the nude, and I’m going to try and look lonely or profound.'~ Fred Herzog "Content cannot be manufactured, in my opinion. That which I can find is better than that which you can make. That which we find, the work and the use of the people out there, it’s natural, that’s what ordinary people do, that interests me." ~ Herzog Herzog on his 1960 photo of Bogner’s Grocery: "That was off Oak street. The signs are a very very important pictorial part of the American city. I won’t even say pictorial, an important cultural part of the American city. If you take the Coca-Cola and other signs away from America downtown, you have nothing. Maybe some interesting architecture, but not very much." "I take pride in saying these are all how we looked, not how we wanted to look, or staged. You cannot stage pictures. That is something I have many many times defended. People say ‘Well you can stage that.’ I say ‘No you cannot, and I can prove it to you.’ Many times over I’ve taken a second shot after [some] kids have seen me, and nothing. It’s a different picture." ~ Herzog U.R. Next Barber Shop: "That was the best barber shop of all times. It was also the first [photo I took]. I couldn’t improve on it. Look at this, it’s almost like a Hollywood movie set, it’s beyond belief." Herzog on the above photograph: "The White Lunch was an institution. I love things like that. The swirl of steam over the cup is pure genius. This is one of the better neon signs around. I’d go to the White Lunch. I can tell you what I ate there: braised sirloin tips and a custard pudding with a little bit of rice in the bottom." Car racing across the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks on the waterfront, just ahead of an oncoming train: “Isn't that lovely, the train coming, the car crossing just in time. I knew two people who died [in train/car crashes], two good acquaintances of mine, one a friend. I was in the fire department [in Germany] and our fire chief got killed just like that. Not in Vancouver, in my hometown in Germany. Herzog on his photo of the Neon jungle at Hastings and Carrall in 1958: "I don’t take credit for it looking like this. What I can’t believe is that there are no good pictures of that. That was a fabulous strip. I only took one picture. Not two or three for safety – I had no money for that. So I had to know exactly how to expose it, take one picture, and hope it doesn’t get lost in the mail. And some got lost in the mail. I had to send [the Kodachrome film] to Kodak in another part of North America. They could get lost and they did get lost." "When I see that now, I only have one slide of this. I think ‘How the hell did I not find the money to take two?’ Honestly, it was a question of eating, in those days. In those days, I put everything into photography, to the point where people said ‘This guy’s a neurotic.’" Dapper black man walking in Chinatown in 1962 with his daughter and dog: “I presume he was an employee of the CNR (Canadian National Railroad) He had his day off and went walking here with his daughter, dressed up beautifully. When I dressed up like that I looked like a bricklayer on Sunday, but he can pull it off with style. "Kodachrome was the best film. I have to thank Kodak for making that product. Without that product, we would not have the pictures. Pictures that were taken on other films have suffered more than Kodachrome. Kodachrome was thought to last 50 years, and it has.” ~ Herzog “The jackpot is for 25 cents. Look at the size of the coin. You'd think she had won 250 grand. But there's five cents, and there's five cents and there's 10 cents. It's not big money.” ~ Herzog Herzog self portrait 1961 Advance to 11:23 for Herzog segment.
Nanny and self-taught photographer Vivian Maier (1926–2009) (previously) kept nearly 150,000 photographic images, including street photography and self-portraits, hidden from the world until an estate sale in 2007 revealed a large bulk of her secretive hobby. Since 2010 her photographs have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums across the world, and were the subject of the 2013 documentary Finding Vivian Maier, which was nominated for an Academy Award. More
“You are looking for a single, brilliant moment and 99% of the time, you won’t get it. But remember this: when at last you get that shot you’ve been looking for, in a thousandth of a second, all those frustrations and near-misses will have paid off.”
Alex Webb's vibrant Mexican street scenes, taken over three decades, are published in his new book "Alex Webb: La Calle."
Almost every Saturday between 1978 and 1999, Tom Wood travelled from his home in New Brighton by ferry and bus to Great Homer Street market, just outside Liverpool city centre in the North West of England. He would spend the morning there photographing the mothers and daughters, kids dressed in matching blue and lilac tracksuits, teenagers chatting away with their curly hair swept up into side-ponies, and grandmothers haggling for of a string of pearl necklaces or a second-hand coat. In the afternoon he’d travel on to either Everton or Liverpool football ground, then back on the bus and ferry, taking pictures every step of the way. ”God knows how many photographs I took,” he says. “When I first began photographing in Liverpool I was just overwhelmed by the people and the place. It was an exciting place to be, I fed off the energy there."
Ed van der Elsken was one of the most influential figures in postwar Dutch photography. He is inextricably linked with Amsterdam , his p...
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Tom Wood's vibrant photographs of shoppers at a market in Liverpool from 1978 onwards.
Here's a collection of amazing color photographs of New York City's street scenes in the 1960s-70 taken by Joel Meyerowitz. (via Shooting Film)
Street photographers, for all their differences, are bound together by a fascination with the everyday. The very best of them are also united by their ability to find beauty and intrigue in the seemingly unremarkable.
Capturing the spirit and nuances of the everyday, working class people of Liverpool, Tom Wood spoke with us about his show at The Photographers' Gallery.
I told my children while pointing to the weirdly shaped Polyforum building, the three of us sitting down in the backseat of a cab, feeling a bit foreign in the city in which we had all been born but had not lived for a long time: “The guy who did that thing is the same one who fired the machine gun whose bullet holes we saw in Trotsky’s bedroom, near your grandparents’ house.” They were, of course, immediately interested in the building. I grew up in the neighborhood of El Carmen, on Calle Viena: a quiet, middle-class, residential road that happens to have, at one end, an insane monument engraved with the hammer and sickle: Leon Trotsky’s grave.
Whether it’s documenting the lives of showgirls or an unfolding revolution, Susan Meiselas' open-ended approach gives the images a life of their own.
David Zwirner annonce la réouverture de sa galerie à Paris avec une exposition de photographies de Philip-Lorca diCorcia. L'exposition présentera des
Today, the dominance of color photography is such that it is hard to envisage the medium without it. One of its earliest champions, Ernst Haas said: “Color is joy. One does not think of joy. One is carried by it”.
Facing Britain, a photography exhibition opening in Germany, showcases important representatives of British documentary practice
Rob Bremner was born in Wick, a small working-class town close to the north-west tip of mainland Scotland. In 1983 he left his hometown to enrol on a photography course at Wallasey College of Art, on the opposite bank of the River Mersey to Liverpool. There he met the Irish photographer Tom Wood and worked … Continue reading "Rob Bremner’s stunning photographs of Liverpool in the 1980s and 90s"
