Jeremy and Eric,
I'm sorry now I didn't work the scene to reveal what's behind the sign - lesson learned. But then again, revealing everything might take away some of the puzzle.
Russ, I'm beginning to get more into colour for 'street', contradicting my long-held and mistaken belief that black and white is the only way for this genre.
Be careful, Seamus.
I think that colour takes it
out of street and into almost pure graphics, which is not street as per classical understanding of it.
It's part of the attraction - for me - of Saul Leiter, whose b/white I consider pure street, yet his colour not and, instead, delightful abstraction. He started non-religious life as a painter, which he kept up all his many days, and perhaps the sense of abstract graphics was always going to run through, whatever else he did.
I think both disciplines are perfectly possible within the same person, as he proved, but I don't think they are the same thing. I do not see the image in this thread as street at all. To me, it's graphics.
Rob
