Came across this website that describes itself as a home for street photographers. There’s a lot of good work on the site, including Gus Powell’s, which we will be looking at during class two’s slideshow.
Link: iN-PUBLiC
this link has also been added to the list on the right.
Welcome to Street + Urban, a blog accompanying Street Photography and the Urban Landscape, an 8 week course at the Educational Alliance. This blog will offer reminders of weekly assignments, lecture notes and additional resources.
Street Photography and the Urban Landscape will examine the use of the public realm of the street as a subject and a setting for photographic exploration. We will examine different approaches to shooting on the street and to the process of working through a project. Classes will consist of weekly slideshows, discussions and critiques. As we explore the legacy of street photography, students will also be expected to be creating new work every week and bringing that work in for critiques. Shooting assignments and readings will be given for the first half of the class; students will complete a self assigned project during the second half of the class.
Students may shoot with whatever equipment they wish to. Film and digital are both fine. Students will be expected to bring work every week for critique. All developing and printing must be done outside of class.
The course will follow the following schedule:
- Week 1, January 25th
Welcome and Intro: goals and structure; discussion of students’ experience and personal goals for this class. What? Why? How? Opportunities and problems shooting on the street. Slideshow exploring a range of approaches to street photography. Assignment one: 11 steps. Reading: The Man Who Said, “I Saw It, I Saw It!” and Passed It By.
- Week 2, February 1st
Working with a classic notion of street photography. Photographer Focus: Daido Moriyama, Ken Schles and Gus Powell. Discussion: Technical considerations: cameras, lenses, hyper focal distance, color/black and white, etc… & Personal considerations: approaching people, overcoming shyness, candid vs. confrontation, etc… Critique of assignment one. Assignment two: 41st Street and Broadway. Reading TBD.
- Week 3, February 8th
Making sense of the Urban Jumble: Landscapes in the City. Photographer Focus: Joel Meyerowitz, Robert Adams and Osamu Kanumura. Critique of assignment two. Assignment three: Your morning walk. Reading: TBD.
- Week 4, February 15th
Self assignment: finding your project. What to shoot? How to shoot? How to remain motivated and active. The single image versus a body of work. Critique of assignment four. Assignment five: brainstorming, assigning yourself a project and begining to shoot.
- Week 5, February 22nd
First critique of self assignments. Assignment: continue shooting, at leat 2 rolls (or digital equivelent).
- Week 6, March 1st
Considering presentation: making work accessible to an audience and making the presentation appropriate to the work. Galleries, folios, artists books, albums, ‘zines, websites, blogs, e-books and trade books. Critique to follow lecture.
- Week 7, March 8th
Lecture dependant on issues that arise in prior class’ crit. Critique to follow lecture. (We may take this class time to on a shooting field trip as a class instead.)
- Week 8, March 15th
Final crit. Students will present a ten to twenty photograph portfolio of work completed during this class.