RedLion
Come to the Faire
As some folks seemed to have enjoyed my previous hip shot examples in the thread on hip shooting, thought I'd share a set taken at a faire.
The main sense of how I took these was - near I can recall it - was one of being in the crowd, sensing the energy and responding quickly - intuitively - to those things which appeared - like a kind of gesture drawing with a camera.
http://www.eloquentimaging.com/Street-Scenes/SFRF-2011/16597459_FDE93#1250641411_QWpEV
This set recalls to mind for me this quotation from "Bystander: A History of Street Photography", by Westerbeck and Meyerowitz:
"If one side of the flaneur was the self--possessed Apollonian, the boulevardier, the other side was a more Dionysian sort of character, a badaud. No english term renders this French word precisely. A badaud is a gawker, a gaper, a rubbernecker. But he is also someone for whom looking becomes participation, a way to be drawn into the scene. Fournel said that in the crowd "that badaud disappears, absorbed by the external world which carries him away from himself, which smites him with elation and ecstasy ... A nature apart, a naive and ardent spirit, transported by his revery, his passion, his quiet enthusiasm, [he is] by instinct and temperament an artist. " (pg 41)
The main sense of how I took these was - near I can recall it - was one of being in the crowd, sensing the energy and responding quickly - intuitively - to those things which appeared - like a kind of gesture drawing with a camera.
http://www.eloquentimaging.com/Street-Scenes/SFRF-2011/16597459_FDE93#1250641411_QWpEV
This set recalls to mind for me this quotation from "Bystander: A History of Street Photography", by Westerbeck and Meyerowitz:
"If one side of the flaneur was the self--possessed Apollonian, the boulevardier, the other side was a more Dionysian sort of character, a badaud. No english term renders this French word precisely. A badaud is a gawker, a gaper, a rubbernecker. But he is also someone for whom looking becomes participation, a way to be drawn into the scene. Fournel said that in the crowd "that badaud disappears, absorbed by the external world which carries him away from himself, which smites him with elation and ecstasy ... A nature apart, a naive and ardent spirit, transported by his revery, his passion, his quiet enthusiasm, [he is] by instinct and temperament an artist. " (pg 41)
