On this day, 8 April, in 1871, Clarence Hudson White was born in small-town Ohio in the United States. White was a teacher and self-taught photographer, but within a few years of his beginning in the art form at age 22, he’d achieved some measure of international fame. His photos were emotional pieces that reflected…
We have established so far that the reason we place such a high regard on photographic images over traditional art for instance is that they have a high truth value. Due to their often sharp focus and high level of detail we accept them as true representations of the world, and thus more documentary in style…
Read Part 6 or view Index to start at the beginning. Part 7 – The Rule Making Epoch–Siskind to Cartier-Bresson As I stated in Part 4 of this series, there is substantial overlap between the street photography epochs we describe. Rather than being purely sequential time periods, as the word epoch might suggest, they are…
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Big in this case is definitely beautiful. Best viewed on a screen larger than the size of a postage stamp. ? What looks great on a big screen doesn’t necessarily translate so well to the tiny screens that we have become accustomed to…
Read Part 5 or view Index to start at the beginning. Part 6 – Brandt to Doisneau Hermann Wilhelm “Bill” Brandt (UK) – 1904 – 1983 Hermann Wilhelm Brandt, known as Bill, was born in Germany just after the turn of the twentieth century. Brandt is widely considered one of the most important British photographers…
Read Part 4 or view Index to start at the beginning. Part 5 – Eisenstaedt to Weegee Alfred Eisenstaedt (Germany, USA) 1898 – 1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photojournalist and one of the twentieth century’s most prolific photographers. Born in Dirschau, West Prussia, by age 14 Eisenstaedt had taken up photography via his…
In our development of this series Bill and I have discussed at great length what makes Street Photography an art form; it is, in fact, what inspired the series to begin with. We drew the conclusion then, that in order to appreciate and understand the Art of Street Photography, as is the title of this…
Index Part 3 Part 4 – The Transitional Epoch By the time the Foundational Epoch ended, shutterbugs had firmly established photography as an art form. Whether their primary intention was in proving the technology (a la Daguerre), displaying life on the streets (Stieglitz, Atget, Thomson), moving viewers toward social change (Riis, Hine), or simply having…
Part 3 – Chained No More – In which our jaunty photographers learn that street photography wasn’t invented with the Leica and really didn’t change all that much once someone finally invented some fast film. To this point in the history of street photography, which represents the emergence of a second generation of photographers around…
An Introduction to Vivian Maier, and the Phenomenon of the Artist-Photographer. Vivian Maier, born in New York in 1926, a nanny originally of French and Austrian heritage, was, is, in mine and Bill’s opinion possibly the best street photographer in the history of street photography. She has been hailed as one of the greatest talents…
The Artists' Sanctum 