Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => But is it Art? => Topic started by: Isaac on January 26, 2014, 08:17:20 pm
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'In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City (http://www.humansofnewyork.com/)."
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a photographic census of New York City"
A guy on the radio was talking about smartphone-like developments over the next few decades. He felt one of the closer-in things would be apps that could identify a very large percentage of the random faces in images, which he thought would be a strong motivation for wearing Google Glass type things. Kiss your anonymity goodbye, that staple of life in NYC will be gone forever.
Thanks for that URL. Love the quotes. While a Bresson or a Ronis etc might be able to communicate as much through a photograph alone, it's nice to sample an actual piece of the subject's mind. One of my favorites...
"I was a sheep in the play at church!"
“Oh yeah? What was the sheep’s job?”
“To follow the bigger kids on to the stage.”
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Great street photography and wisdom by the masses.
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Beautiful.
Thanks so much for sharing it!!
Mike.
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Thanks for posting it, Isaac. It's not street photography, but it is very, very fine environmental portraiture.
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Looks like a very fine project.
Thanks for posting it!
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Great post. I love the quoted content. Following is one of many examples:
"We broke up in a Starbucks. A week later, I walked by and the place had been completely bulldozed to the ground. I always thought that was the Universe doing me a favor."
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I've had an active interest in this site for a while. A few clones in other cities have also popped up recently.
http://www.lalalabarcelona.com/
sorry, its in Spanish
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One of my favourites...