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Street Photography

from Preston Merchant (merchant@speakeasy.org)
Someone in one of the forums posted this address a while back:

www.in-public.com

The site is excellent, offering street photography in the best sense of the word.

Don't forget that street photography, as it comes to us from Henri Cartier-Bresson, was originally a surrealist enterprise: noting incongruities and humor in public (and therefore human) space. HCB was a man in the crowd. He didn't so much sneak up on people as wait patiently and silently ready to spring. He believed he could, and apparently did, become "invisible." He also shot very little and said that if you produced 10 worthy photos a year you were doing very well. His genius was to convey intimacy without seeming like a spymaster.

All of that said, I agree with you--street photography is terrifying!

(posted 8099 days ago)

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