What elements need to be present in "Street Photography"?

[Asher Kelman]

So what do you think street photography might need to work and to be worth the wall space for others to show in public places, their homes, workplace or even perhaps in a bespoke, bound and custom folio protected by intervening sheets of vellum??

Asher

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Asher,

So what do you think street photography might need to work

1. A street.

2. The taking of a photograph (you know, point and then shoot).

Best regards,

Soug

 

[Robert Watcher]

Interesting content - otherwise no-one will consider it. Technical qualities of highest resolution, no noise, or all highlights or shadows having detail - - - seldom matter, except for possibly some art galleries who see that as more important than visual impact. For my work, street photography often extends into areas discovered while walking or shooting the streets.


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[Tom dinning]

Hi, Asher,



1. A street.

2. The taking of a photograph (you know, point and then shoot).

Best regards,

Doug

Damn, Doug, you got in before me. My thoughts exactly. Cheers
I would add one proviso for my own home, though.
A partner who thinks they match the decor. Obviously, mine don't
Such is the life of an artist!

 

[Jerome Marot]

What street photography needs? A tripod, a black veil and a view camera of course:

(all images: Walker Evans)
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I am being facetious, but I just want to point out that you are opening a bigger can of worms than you think.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Image: Walker Evans
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Why isn't this as famous as Lange's Migrant Mother??

Image: Dorothea Lange​

Asher

 

[Jerome Marot]

Maybe we need some lighter subject. This is how this team of hackers photographs the street of Paris:

upstagram_by_hackerloop_2013_up_house_first_fly by hackerloop​

 

[Asher Kelman]

Does one have a GPS on board so they can retrieve it?

 

[Jerome Marot]

Does one have a GPS on board so they can retrieve it?

They are hackers, Asher. What do you think?

 

[Chris Calohan II]

The Photographer: Chris Calohan​