NY Times: Street photography in an image filled age

[TheHoff]

In our media-saturated culture, everyone is a picture-taker and image-maker, adding a new wrinkle to the work of those who practice the time-honored tradition of street photography.

Full story: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/street-photography-in-an-image-filled-age/

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/02/13/nyregion/streetphoto.6.jpg
“Our Secret,” one of the images on view in “Manhattan Noon,” an exhibition of street
photographs by Gus Powell at the Museum of the City of New York. (Photos: Gus Powell)

[js6198]

Is that 5th ave by the library yesterday? I walked that very spot going to Lord and Taylor at around noon.

[TheHoff]

As it is in an exhibition, I don't think it was yesterday :)

[nicksan]

I like this one from the comments at the bottom of the page.

You can thank college and university arts programs for the over-intellectualisation of Photography:
After all, they have to justify charging students all that money somehow.
Great images require only 3 things
a good eye
patience
technical competence
everything else is just, well, words.


And I agree with several others in saying that the photos are boring.

[JawsofLife252]

Interesting article, thanks for posting it.

[prcrstn8]

The photos were boring, true, but the one titled “For J. Singer Sargent” caused me to follow the link to find out why, leading to a bit of art history I never would have read about otherwise - a 19th C cause célèbre, the Portrait of Madame X. Quaint! Loved it (learned something, too).

[NZDoug]

The point of the article is true. as, I was at Sydney, under the bridge, at dusk, with about 20 other photographers, all with tripods, Canons, Nikons, 4x5s, 6x17s, Blads, 6x7 Mamiyas, etc.
I felt like a lemming....:p

[GRODY]

what photos where boring the ones on the side ?


i think its completely unconstitutional to have to get a permit to shoot in a subway...thats completely ridiculous.... i understand if you ganna have lights and models and a bunch of s**t.. but for those kind of pics.. hell no...

i was in cuba my senior year of highschool and took a picture i guess in front of a certain building and the police asked for my camera and the film. i was mad pissed... and there wasnt anything i could do about it. That situation made me proud to live in a free country.