street + urban

Marc Feustel writes about street photography in general and Nick Turpin’s 10: 10 Years of in_public specifically. Some nice ideas in this short review.

Here.

An anecdote of a photographer being stopped when he’d done nothing wrong:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/behind-47/

Came across Yamauchi Michio’s work via Tokyo Camera Style. There’s some really great work in his site here.

This isn’t exactly street photography, but maybe it is. John Sypal has been photographing other peoples’ cameras on the streets of Tokyo–usually only film cameras. It’s sort of akin to several other photographers who have photographed darkrooms or the photographer who recently shot the darkroom trays of various photographers. It’s a lot about the gear, but a little about something else–maybe it’s the aura suggested by Araki as he’s quoted in the blog’s right hand column. Sometimes a project can be simple and straightforward.

http://tokyocamerastyle.com

Check out his other work, too.

Via sevenseven nine: Polly Braden: http://pollybraden.com/

Via the Japan Exposures blog, check out the work of Arimoto Shinya: http://arimotoshinya.com/

Appropos to one of our threads of conversation on Monday, here is Susan Barnett’s Comments (0)

Just a reminder that we do not have class on July 5th because of the holiday weekend.

We’ll meet again next on July 12th.

Keep an eye on the blog for street photo tidbits to keep you tied over until then.

There were two assignments given this past Monday:

• Go to the intersection of 57th Street and 5th Avenue, shoot 75 pictures or more at that intersection. You may shoot from anywhere at the intersection within a half block in any direction. As always, bring in a selection of 5 to 15 work prints for a critique on July 12th.

• I want everyone to brainstorm ten or more ideas for your self assigned project. You can let yourself go crazy on the brainstorming, but be sure that some of your ideas are accessible. From out of the brainstorming, choose one project that you are going to pursue through the rest of this class. Write four to five sentences describing why this project is interesting to you and how you might/will approach shooting it. E-mail both the brainstorm list and this short paragraph to me by Monday the 5th for me to make comments.

For those feeling a little invasive or shy during the first assignment, check out the video of Bruce Gilden on WNYC’s Street Shots page. He’s pretty in your face and unapologetic. I’m not suggesting you be this aggressive, but hopefully you’ll see that there is plenty of room for you to become more aggressive than you are now and to move in closer to people on the street.

Link to WNYC.