Street Photography Deciphered

[FrankS]

Frank...Ive understood all that loud and clear from the get go, so sorry to make you have to spell it all out again. I simply think an alternate definition makes more sense (street photography being the overarching genre with all those sub categories underneath).

But then again what I think matters little (or nothing at all).

No worries! We all have opinions and on subjective matters like definitions for types of photography, each is as valid as the next.

It is useful/helpful when the definitions one uses is synchronous/not too different from the definitions that most others use. Communication is clearer and more effective when using common definitions.

 

[andredossantos]

No worries! We all have opinions and on subjective matters like definitions for types of photography, each is as valid as the next.

It is useful/helpful when the definitions one uses is synchronous/not too different from the definitions that most others use. Communication is clearer and more effective when using common definitions.

Totally agree

 

[ederek]

Interesting thread, been following along.

Nice write up! Really in-depth. Chris Weeks released a nice document, and later an interesting documentary:

http://vimeo.com/6497905

It's a 3 parter.

That dang "document" was my introduction to rangefinders, leading me here to RFF. Costly but bringing great joy.

This image has no people but is all about the person who must have just stepped away and is about to return, certainly speaking to the human condition:

Home for the Night

The next two were shot 10 feet from each other and both are completely candid. In the first the man seeking money for a joint was looking at the man shown in the window reflection, not me and the group I was walking with.

Why Lie?

Afternoon Cigarette

This next one is not candid, but I still feel it is "street".

Too Ugly

I think my street shots tend to cover the gamut..