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Tony Ray-JonesTony Ray-Jones, whose photographic career spanned only one decade, defined a new way of looking at his own society — with irony, nostalgia, compassion and humor. He was prolific in his short 10 years, and his point of view exerted an enormous influence on the development of British documentary art photography from the 1970s through the present.
His photographs are documentary, almost anthropological by nature, and make keen observations on contemporary British society.
"Photography can be a mirror and reflect life as it is, but I also think that perhaps it is possible to walk like Alice, through a looking-glass, and find another kind of world with the camera."

Street Photography DDs - April 2012About the Street Gallery, Street DDs etc.

By ~zihnisinir
yansima... by ~kuvars
By ~kuvars
I had too -V2- by ~cinqth
By ~cinqth

Friday night Street Specials v9.1
A weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested as DDs
or simply impressed me and I think they deserve more attention.
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.

Have a nice weekend!

Friday night Specials v4.2
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.
A weekly selection amongst the images I liked,
while browsing the Street Gallery
and I think they deserve more attention.
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember
to visit the photographers' galleries as well.

Have a nice weekend!

Friday night Street Specials v5.1
A weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested as DDs
or simply impressed me and I think they deserve more attention.
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.

Have a nice weekend!

5 Street Photography ClichesWhen I first sat down to craft my top 5 list of clichés found in street
photography I thought it was going to be a very quick exercise. I figured I would list 5 common photographs I usually see on groups on the internet and be done. Before I could even start crafting a list I needed to understand the definition of cliché.
Wikipedia defines it as:
"an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel"
I quickly realized that a quick list of 5 types of photographs wouldn't suffice as in a couple months it could be obsolete. For instance, if you were to ask me a year ago I might have said black and white photographs but now street photography on the whole seems to be moving more towards colour street photographs.
Since particular cliché photo types in street photography can change as the popularity of shooting styles cha

Matt WeberMatt Weber shots his way through life.
Started out as a taxi driver and saw so many things on the streets that he kept saying "If only I had a camera…" A camera seemed like the only way to capture the crazy stuff which was happening almost every night.
Claims that the 70's were more interesting than the 80's, but in December 1984 bought a competitive camera, an AE-1 and a 50mm lens.
Started out in color film, but one year after he turned to b/w, because color was tricky to develop.
Thinks that failure is important, and that failing over 99% of the time and not giving up is something to be proud of. Takes "awful pictures on a daily basis and always will. There aren't too many other types of photography where that's the expected result."
Suffered from the photographic equivalent of "Writer's Block" for many years and it would be the crazy decision to spend most of my savings on a pair of M6′s and a few lenses that helped him to comeback. "The 28mm & 35mm lenses are the perfec

Friday night Street Specials v7.2
A weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested as DDs
or simply impressed me and I think they deserve more attention.
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.

Have a nice colorful weekend!

Friday night Street specials v12.2
A weekly selection amongst the images I liked, while browsing the Street Gallery
and I think they deserve more attention.
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.

Have a nice weekend

Friday night Street Specials v8.5
A weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested as DDs
or simply impressed me and I think they deserve more attention.
Enjoy them, comment on them and remember to visit the photographers' galleries as well.
If you like what you see, this article
so it can reach as many deviants as possible.

Have a nice weekend!

TSF: A "Posters In The Street" FeatureStreet Photography:
Posters! Posters!! Posters!!!
"Everyone in the business world knows the importance of
posters and ads in advertising for specific products.
Posters are an integral part of advertising. An eye-catching, attractive poster
that conveys a professional, compelling message about a product, service
or event will invariably hold the user's attention."**
That is until a Street Photographer comes along....
Posters, Billboards, Large Display Panels, etc. they're all around us!
Every street corner, building and display window in this ad-mad world of ours is adorned with these
wonderfully enticing, heavily photoshopped and grossly misleading sheets of prevarication.
Malls, museums, art galleries, subway, bus stations, airports, public toilets....
great places for (non pervy) Street Photographers to hang out on a slow day.
Now add posters into the mix and "BAM!" we have a great photo op on our hands!
If you're starting out in Street Photography, I'd say look

There's something about StammyStam, you know you're one of the responsible for me start
doing Street photography. I still remember that reply, once, on FB:
"Don't forget, street is a serious thing!... " So, not only I have to
thank you for guiding me into the right path, but also for being such an
inspiration to us all, with your talent and engaging effort, for
promoting Street Photography to the highest level in dA, and most of
all... for being there.
Yeap, "Mr. Street", you're a great guy.
- Nuno Canha -

"Stam's work is a best practise of voluntary work proving how far you can
reach doing something you are passionate about. One can not imagine the
amount of work he has put into this. If there was a Street
Photographers Award all categories, Stam would be the natural winner.
There
are many of us out there just taking all kind of stuff for granted.
Stam has ben doing something. He is the true doer when it comes to
street and the inspirati

The Sc-Avenger: October 2012

spotlight on:
:iconBagigi:

:iconSid-L:

:iconcosmin-m:

:iconiapostolovski:

SUPER STREET SHOTS III with DougNZ
Super Street Shots from our members and around dA:
The theme this time is Solitude.

El Balco

Street Colour 15

Ghosts

218

Morning Cleaning

Lost

Great expectations

A cigarette and his thoughts

Un homme, une femme

Featured in March--- March ---

Licked by *pavboq
The clever framing of the kid eating an icecream in the arm of the slurping icecream cow makes of an ordinary scene a curious, eye catching and funny one.

Train station by ~cosmin-m
The image suggests many feelings. Melancholy, farewell, solitude (the dog), love (the couple). Beautiful and emotional.

Faceless by ~cedrus
Flawless frame. Three faceless women in the three thirds of the image, all facing away, two gray arms surfacing fro

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Elliott Erwitt - L'instant crucial

Journal Entry: Sat Aug 18, 2012, 2:19 AM

Né à Paris en 1928, fils d'émigrés russes, Elliott Erwitt a grandi en Italie et en France. Sa famille émigre aux Etats-Unis en 1939, s'installant d'abord à New York puis à Los Angeles.

Elliott Erwitt fréquente le lycée d'Hollywood, tout en travaillant dans un laboratoire commercial où il développe des tirages "signés" pour les fans de stars de cinéma. En 1949, il retourne en Europe où il voyage et prend des photos en Italie et en France, c'est le début de sa carrière professionnelle.

Conscrit dans l'armée des Etats-Unis en 1951, il continue à photographier pour plusieurs publications – totalement à l'écart de ses fonctions militaires – alors qu'il est en poste au New Jersey, en Allemagne et en France.

Par pure chance, alors qu'il était parti chercher du travail à New York avant son service militaire, il rencontre Edward Steichen, Robert Capa et Roy Stryker qui apprécient ses photographies et qui le prennent sous leur aile, devenant des mentors importants.

En 1953, fraîchement libéré du service militaire, Elliott Erwitt, parrainé par Robert Capa, devient membre de l'agence Magnum Photos. Il a travaillé pour la revue Life et participé à la célèbre exposition The Family of Man au Musée d'Art Moderne de New York, en 1955, et depuis plus de cinquante ans, ses livres, ses reportages photographiques, ses illustrations et ses publicités apparaissent dans des publications du monde entier.

Dans les années 70, tout en continuant son travail photographique, il commence à tourner des films, d'abord plusieurs documentaires et ensuite, dans les années 80, des programmes de télévision comiques et satiriques pour la chaîne HBO (Home Box Office).

Des années 90 à nos jours, il continue de mener une vie professionnelle étonnamment variée. Il est l'auteur de plus de 20 livres de photographie, dont les titres récents sont The Art of André S. Solidor A.k.a. Elliott Erwitt, Rome, New York, et Dogs.