Lost & Found - Vivian Maier

John Maloof, photographer, bought around 30.000-40.000 negatives and another 1000 undeveloped rolls of film at an auction. At this point nobody knew where these photos came from and who they belonged to.
But when John had his first view on it it was clear that they were Vivian Maier's.
All photos were taken between 1950 and 1970 in Chicago.
John's still unsure what to do with those photos, but he posts some examples on his blog (see link and photos below). He also thinks about showing those to galleries because its clearly that they shouldn't be too unimportant for Chicago.

see the discussion on Flickr here.
some more information here.
and his blog here.






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say it in a square

First: AM market by Hengki Koentjoro.

Second: metro hanging by Oc-lock.

Third: Morning Activity BW by Sandy Wijaya.

Fourth: Strangers by miqulski.


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Really nice features here.I find your idee very interesting so..i decided to add your blog to my blog roll.keep up the good work! ;)

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thanks for featuring me in your blog...

very nice selection of works!

:)

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100 strangers - about anonymity and confidence

I personally don't ask for permission when I take photos of people. So far, they didn't even recognize me or looked friendly into my camera without a word. But a photowalk with my photo class made me think that over. One guy just talked to every person he saw if he could take a photo. Haven't seen his pictures so far but I'm quite concerned they're great... so why don't I try asking people to take photos of them, too? I mean, what's the problem? Actually, I'm not that shy. And I have never noticed people getting angry because of me taking photos of them. But it's that hard to... begin.

Then, in a news article by Photo Assignment, I read about the '100 strangers' project:

The idea is to approach someone you’ve never met before, ask if you can take their picture, and talk to them a bit to get some kind of backstory, and then upload the photo (and a short description of who they are and what you talked about) to flickr and add it to the 100 Strangers group. Then repeat 99 more times.
Not only will get photos of different people in your collection, but you just might make a new friend or two. You can, of course, skip the flickr part and do this project on your own, but you would gain a lot of inspiration from the group.

Take a look at the Flickr Group to see what is meant.

One photographer who, in my opinion, has brought this to perfection, is the Canadian Benoit Paille.



He himself says about his photography:
Questioning the hypermodern world in which we are living and trying to break this hyper-individualism and the anonymity of the big city. By going into "Non-lieux" (no existing places) (subways, malls, and crowded streets at rush hours...) and by talking to people to take photos, I break the usual way this hyper-modern world works for a few instants. I make real these "non-lieux" by creating an event that the stranger will remember. I choose my models because of the emotional beauty of the instant and not because of their esthetic beauties.

Click here to look at more of his 'strangers' photos. And for those of you who speak French, this interview might be interesting to read.


Maybe in the futur I will be proud to present my own '100 strangers' to you. At least I hope so.


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the world of Fotomo

Kimio Itozaki creates so called Fotomos, dioaramas, by shooting from different angles and then assembling those photos alltogether afterwards so it gives a 3D-image.
He's also offering his Fotomos for free, so you can download them and build one yourself.

Read more about Kimio Itozaki here
and download one here





(via: BOOOOOOM)


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a certain experience

I visited the Antony Gormley exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz.
Antony Gormley is a British sculptor and conceptional artist. Mostly, his works treat the human body, he uses his own body as subject, tool and material.
The wide rooms of the museum offered the perfect place for his works, one room was filled with sculptures of himself, another one with metal circles.
I myself watched and photographed the people in the museum, for example the guy sitting in one corner of the room. He seemed completely anxious and exhausted, and completely lost among all these metal circles... I wonder what he was doing there.

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one shot

'leave an impression' by ine87

1. First of all, what's your name and where do you live?
My name is Inés, and I live in Montevideo, Uruguay

2. Do you remember when and where this photo was taken?
This photo was taken more than a year ago (June 2008) in my neighbourhood

3. Did you went out shooting street that day or did you just have a camera with you by coincidence as you saw it?
That day I went out shooting with my boyfriend

4. What made you take this photo? Any story you want to tell with it?
This man is an artist that was hired to paint an ad for Ballantine's. The campaign's claim is "Leave an impression", and that's the title of my photograph too. This scene just caught our attention, it's not normal to see this in my neighbourhood...

5. How did you compose it? Any post-processing?
It was quite a quick shot actually, I didn't have to move around that much. I think I was lucky, the sky's colours that day seemed to be part of the ad.
As for post-processing: levels, colour adjustments, and some minor cropping.

6. How makes it feel you now? What do you think when you look at it? Do you still like it? Anything you think you could have done better?
I still like this photo, but looking back, I should've taken more shots of the same scene. I wouldn't change composition nor the point of view, but I would've waited for the man to be actually painting.

Make sure to visit her deviantART gallery.


'One Shot' is supposed to be a new kind of series, these questions I'll ask several photographers about one particular photo in their gallery. Hope you enjoy.


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it's all in the hips.

Alot of use bring our eye to the veiwfinder and then compose and expose or draw your camera to your hips (if you're one of the lucky one with a old roliflex). Stumbled across this video a while ago, Joe Wigfall has i guess a little bit of a unorthodox 'veiw' (forgive the pun) about how he takes his street shots, have a look at the video, gonna give this a go next time i'm out,



And on a side-note, if you can find this book called "Photojournalisim" by Reuel Golden (looks like this )

grab it, found this book in the bargin bin at a bookstore, well worth the $20 dollars i payed for it... it's got a great selection of photo that no words i could type could give it any justice....I'll throw up some photos from it soon.

Have a good one all!
Ben

O and a quick question(s).....when shooting street whats you're favorite ISO/ASA? Dont care it it's digital or film, but it's film whats your fav film and why? (and yes ofcourse polaroid counts :P)

Labels: books NYC polaroid youtube photojournalisim joe wigfall

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world through a plastic lens

street photography doesn't always have to be done via a good quality camera, and more important it doesn't have to be all black and white. so here are a few of my favourite street shots taken with Lomography cameras such as Holga and Diana.



images above by edwardolive. @Flickr

and please also have a look at this set by cHr1st1an S@Flickr
all those photos included were taken with a Lomo Supersampler



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one shot

'Live your Life' by andreawan

1. First of all, what's your name and where do you live?
My name is Dasdy Andreawan, Live in Jakarta, Indonesia

2. Do you remember when and where this photo was taken?
The Photo was taken Apr 22, 2009, 1:49:08PM at my College (University Of Indonesia)

3. Did you went out shooting street that day or did you just have a camera with you by coincidence as you saw it?
I always bring my camera, and there are instances when I took this picture

4. What made you take this photo? Any story you want to tell with it?
there are no reasons why i take this photo, it just in my mind that i must take it, and the result were not bad

5. How did you compose it? Any post-processing?
just turn it into black and white

6. How makes it feel you now? What do you think when you look at it? Do you still like it? Anything you think you could have done better?
yes, i still like it anytime i look at it

Make sure to visit his deviantART gallery.


'One Shot' is supposed to be a new kind of series, these questions I'll ask several photographers about one particular photo in their gallery. Hope you enjoy.

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Viewbook Photostory

Viewbook Photostory is a contest featuring documentary and conceptual photography. nevertheless you can also find some street photo sets there.

Contest Submissions

Two sets caught my attention. they're pretty similiar. both are about subways, but two different cities.

"Metropolitan (Subway): means of transportation, urban, on rails, characteristic of big cities; it joins the urban center with the suburbs and lies on a site that is proper to it, generally underground, on the ground or on an elevated surface. It is thusly defined by the dictionary.

I define it as a place."



the first set is called "Metro" by Marco Simola. There are alot of photos. sure a few not so interesting but keep flickering through it until the end or you'll miss some really great captures. this way

the second set called "My Subway/My paranoid city" by Lui Rincon. The photos were taken back in 2005 when he was visiting his hometown, New York. this way


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