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“Everybody Street illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to these artists. Covering nine decades of street photography, “Everybody Street” explores the careers and influences of many notable photographers––a number of whom have never been documented, featuring: Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Jill Freedman, Bruce Gilden, Joel Meyerowitz, Rebecca Lepkoff, Mary Ellen Mark, Jeff Mermelstein, Clayton Patterson, Ricky Powell, Jamel Shabazz, Martha Cooper, and Boogie, with historians Max Kozloff and Luc Sante."
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Jill Freedman
Jill was a New York street photographer she took very interesting images of anything she saw and liked. When she was younger she found old magazines she became very interested in the picture within them. She has many different jobs in her life but nothing ever meaningful then one day she wanted a camera. So she borrowed a camera but she had never taken an image before. Jill read the instructions then went out onto the street and shot two rolls she then got those developed.She said she felt like it was right to take pictures and she soon found something very meaningful to her. Jill said " I like to work two ways, either on a specific idea or just wandering around, getting lost, snapping. Eventually all the wanderings go together, and then I find out what I’ve been doing."
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Theres a dog looking quite upset sitting outside a shop looking at a sign which says no dogs allowed.Its in black and white and it makes the image seem more fake like a set up instead of something that would happen naturally.The image is still theres no movement the dog is sitting on the ground the door of the shop isn't being opened theres no one in the background moving the image is calm and looks very organised.The photographer is clearly at a slightly higher level then the dog you can tell because the camera is being pointed towards the ground. She is quite close to the dog and the sign you can read it very clearly and it has a good effect on the viewers because you can see the dogs expression read the sign and see the enviroment around it. The viewpoint was looking straight on and slightly tilted towards the ground. I think she was standing still when the photograph was made.I think she used a lens to draw us closer to the dog because there isn't anything too interesting in the background she wanted us to focus mainly on the dog. Why did you take the picture from this angle?
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Cropping and Reflections
Walk on by
I like this photo because the girl was running along and she is very centred. Also the main subject (the girl) looks like she was about to jump up I really like the composition of the photo i like that the girl is very central and off to the right is Brandon also you can see the building in the background and the doors off to the left. I also really like the angle its a very slight angle. The photo is in colour and i think it looks better then it probably would in black and white. There isn't really any information in the image it doesn't tell you much or show you much also its not very interesting it wouldn't make people want to look at it for a long time to figure out whats going on. I was standing quite close to the girl and got it as she ran past me.
Over the shoulder
We first watched some more of 'Everybody Street" it looked so easy to take photos of people they didn't know which made me think it would be easy. We have taken pictures independently around school. I found this quite hard because you couldn't work with anyone and you wasn't aloud to look at the images either so you were kind of clueless on how it looked and if it was any good. Also i found it quite uncomfortable to try and take photos of people i don't know and who are a bit older then me its very hard. I think i missed opportunities to get some really good images because i was scared and didn't want to take photos of strangers.
This is my favourite image i like this one because i took over someones shoulder and captured people doing things very naturally. I like the compositionI like that the people are off slightly to the left and then you have somebody else more off to the right but then you can also see that the person stood in front of me was also off to the right. Also I like that its taken quite far away from the people so I felt more comfortable taking it meaning I could try and make it the best I could.
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This is a good example of triangles it's the way that Abbie is at the top then Jessica and Lauren sat at different levels of the steps. Also it fills the frame well there's not anything in the background to distract you and the main focus is on the people it also shows the movement by the way you can see Abbie's legs also Jess and Lauren are doing other things.
Rule Of Thirds
The Rule of thirds is an imaginary grid that can help your photo composition much better. The image becomes divided into 9 sections on most cameras and phones you can actually turn grid on. It also helps you make photos better it makes you think about how you frame images.
Rule of thirds challenge
Diagonals.
The idea for this challenge comes from Eric Kim's great street photography site. Street photographs are often about dramatic situations or view points. Drama is created in pictures in lots of ways but using strong diagonal lines is one technique often used by street photographers. |
I think that in all of my photographs you can see quite strong diagonal lines. I also think that it was quite hard to find diagonal lines sometimes.
I think my images would be better if i tried to get closer to the lines if i made them stand out more. Also if iI tired to make them the main focus and not get so much of the background which may distract from the actual diagonal lines. |
Similarities
The similarities in the two images are they are both quite dark and have a lot of space around the main subject also they have quite a lot of people in the background and in the main subject. They both have quite a lot going on in theres people all standing around something maybe something is happening that we can't see everyone is and in the second one people are looking at the women as they walk past but they are also looking at the person in a wheelchair. They are both quite unaware of their photo being taken both look like it could have been taken from a little distance away maybe so they don't know and its more natural then if they knew it was being taken.
Differences
The differences in the two images are that the image on the left is very dark and very focused on one thing whereas the image in the right is quite light and it has a main focus but it also has more going on that isn't so central but it still might catch your eye jf you look at it long enough.In the first image the people are in the foreground with a lot in the background. In the second one the women kind of blend into the background more. They look like they are both taken in very different places the first looks more like a popular quite busy place where a lot of people would go whereas the second image looks like a quiet little street.