On 4/6/2012 6:27 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
The Stephen Shore stuff on the link you posted wouldn't even compost properly.
I wasn't very favorably impressed with most of it myself. I figured
that it didn't survive the translation from an 8x10 contact print to an
800 pixel screen image. Most of them looked like instamatic snapshots
to me.
Certainly not to pick on you Frank, but with your words in mind have a
look at the work of this celebrated photog, Stephen Shore, who has won
more accolades and awards than the entire PDML population stacked
end-to-end ...
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/shore/shore_yosemite_full.html
A scattering of random people, too far away to connect with etc.
So what's the big deal? Or is Larry in fact the second coming of SS?
Should he send his work to Steichen for purchase?
I don't think that I'm the second coming of anyone. For better or
worse, I seem to be a unique product.
BTW: Stephen Shore once browsed Flickr and declared it all shit. So
that about wraps it up I guess. Good thing I've got some stuff over at
500px. ;-)
A website used by the general population to upload their cell phone
snapshots? Start wandering around randomly and think that it's shit?
Big surprise.
http://2point8.whileseated.org/2006/12/12/stephen-shore-on-certainty-and-shit/
I can respect someone that can look at a scene, see what he wants, and
in a single shot get it. Working with film, I can do a single shutter
press per image, but I've found that I much prefer the iterative process
of discovery that digital allows me.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:10 AM, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
Well, it's not street photography 'cause there's no pavement, concrete,
buildings, the sort of things that differentiate streets from, say, beaches.
;-)
These are really nice beach and ocean photos, but I don't feel that the people
in the shots add much. They don't seem to be doing anything of great interest,
we're not close enough to get any of their personality and as compositional
elements, well, to me the pictures would be just as effective without them.
I do appreciate the feedback. I was trying to catch the energy of the
kids playing in the surf, but I looked at the photos through my
experience of having been there.
But hey, that's just me, what do I know?
Enough to have a photographic style named after you.
;-)
cheers,
frank
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." --
Christopher Hitchens
--- Original Message ---
From: Larry Colen<[email protected]>
Sent: April 1, 2012 4/1/12
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"<[email protected]>
Subject: Is it street photography, if there is no street?
There are worse things than having an hour to kill, when you're two blocks from
the beach, at sunset.
I found myself taking two types of pictures, and so I split it into two sets. In these I
was practicing my "street photography", trying to capture people at the
decisive moment, sometimes shooting from the waist. As such, this set may not be as
technically strong as it might be, and the composition might be somewhere between ad hoc
and random. Even so, I find these pictures rather fun, in a frivolous way:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157629713831141/
There are several shots in here with a group of college age kids, 153-154 and 230-232.
Shortly after shooting 154, I noticed one of them had a camera and got to chatting with
them. One of the girls told me her name was Cassandra, to which I immediately replied
"I don't believe you". The poor girl was totally confused and had no idea what
I was talking about.
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