Agree that I probably would not have given this a second look in a gallery. However, regardless of any photographic rules, this is street photography that really does tell a story. The more I look at it the more I like it. A good blend of stopped movement as well as blurred movement.
marciamyers wrote:
Agree that I probably would not have given this a second look in a gallery. However, regardless of any photographic rules, this is street photography that really does tell a story. The more I look at it the more I like it. A good blend of stopped movement as well as blurred movement.
I didn't care for it, for which I was taken to the woodshed, but I was there with several others. I actually prefer his work on the American West. Each of us no doubt prefers different sorts of photography. A street photographer, I really liked was Fan Ho. I also enjoy Vivian Maier's work, but she has been been very well covered lately. There is a young lady, Harmony Sage, who has a youtube channel under the name of "Temperate Sage". She specializes in out of focus images and gives rationale for pursuing that as a creative endeavor. She also is an accomplished seamstress and crafts costumes of her own design which she uses in locations shots. You might enjoy her work.
I think just the Chevy should be moving. The bus and the people should be stationary; otherwise bus/car accident is in the works. My guess is you found this in your dad's old box of reject photos.
This doesn't strike me as Kodak stock. Perhaps early Fujicolor? The photog was clearly interested in the color play and wanted to abstract these colors' interplay with the color-subject, the bus. Either a slow shutter day, or a late discovery and swing-capture...This is New York? (yellow cabs)...
Let's try again: it has the vague effect of a deconstructed city lifestyle collage that would accompany a NYTMag article. People dressed in appropriate uniformity anchors the lower right, while the object of desire and promise of efficient transport occupies the upper left. Tension is created via the swift moving mechanical river btw them. And while it does not conform to the broader appealing compositions associated with street photography, there is an undeniable quality that makes you keep looking. The color for starters has the shadow hues of Fuji film stock, as do the the reds - all muted and shifted - that make you look more intently, curiously and ask 'why is that so attractive?'.
Moreover, the abstraction of the mid elements and their singular color moving your eye to the left where you find and get stuck in the most magnetic object in the composition - even though your eye keeps wanting to travel back to the other portions of the composition, but you are constantly drawn back to...up and left. Like a glitch. Not satisfying. and, after you've fascinated at the hues, becomes almost annoying.
Would you take ht time to break down for us how you are seeing this image? Expose the art? thank you.
Looks like Earnst Hass. He was a pioneer in street and color and motion photography.
marcelfilmfoto wrote:
Would you take ht time to break down for us how you are seeing this image? Expose the art? thank you.
Who are you asking? This thread is from two years ago and seems to get a lifeline every 6 months or so for about a minute.
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