Everybody Street now available for download/rental

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Cheryl Dunn's documentary about street photography is now available on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/ondemand/everybodystreet

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.

Hell yeah.
 
basically too many photographer in one documentary, and most of what they say is already been said many times before.
 
I hadn't heard of this documentary until last week when I ran into a guy while out shooting. He saw my M6 and came over to chat (he had an X100 with him). He mentioned it in passing, and I looked it up later that day.

Last night I rented it and my wife watched it with me. She respects my love of photography, but doesn't really ever try to "get it," so to speak. But she watched it, and I tried to fill her in on some background as we watched, such as zone focusing, why wide-angle lenses were often preferable for depth of field, and who some of the people were in the movie, the tradition of street shooting, etc.

I think she was somewhere between impressed by my knowledge of arguably useless information and scratching her head as to how or why I knew about any of this stuff, LOL. In fairness, she thought much of the images shown were outstanding, but the process itself is a little odd--and I suppose it's hard to argue with that!

Though I personally spend a lot of time shooting in urban locations, I lean more toward city landscapes and less-obtrusive people scenes. It's not really in my comfort zone to aim my camera in people's faces. Though I have great admiration for those who do it well.

Anyway...I enjoyed the documentary. I recommend it. I wish there were more like it.
 
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