What's a hipster?

[Hjortsberg]

Beatniks, Mods, Rockers, Hippis, when you're an angry young man, there's no better way to prove you're an individual than to dress and act exactly like everybody else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3h--K5928M has a lot of that, circa 1964.

A a dead-head friend had been bugging me for years to go to a Grateful Dead concert so I finally did. Back during that time period I wore a jacket and tie everywhere I went. It was just what I wore because I enjoyed it. Man I got so much **** at the concert by the dead heads for wearing a jacket and tie.

 

[awbphotog]

I'm 25. I went to art school. All of us were called 'hipsters' for having cameras at all by the locals (Rochester, NY...the home of Kodak!). I was once accused by a peer at art school of wearing a camera as jewelry because I had it with me 100% of the time. It seems 'hipsters' are somewhat socially cannibalistic. Even 'hipsters' enjoy calling out other 'hipsters' for anything they deem appropriate (inappropriate?).

That being said, I have anxiety and taking a camera with me everywhere helps calm that. I hope that doesn't make me a hipster.

Andy

 

[ulrich.von.lich]

A hipster is a rich hippie who only cares about his own image instead of that of the world, and smokes just as much weed.

I believe it is classed into the bourgeoisie in France.

 

[02Pilot]

Not mine, no idea where it came from originally, and hopelessly out of date (especially in a phenomenon as fast-moving as hipsterism), but amusing nonetheless.

 

[semi-ambivalent]

I was in Asheville, NC a month ago.

I miss climbing in Brevard in the late 1970s. Almost moved there. Drowned rats, sitting out the rain at The Pink Poodle. Sweet little town.

s-a

 

[Roger Hicks]

. . . I believe it is classed into the bourgeoisie in France.

Is this not the Bobos (Bourgeois-bohème)? This is a contraction that it is more popular in France than in its native USA, perhaps because we have quite a lot of them. Perhaps French Bobos have a higher regard for intellectuals than the English-speaking world.

I was surprised to discover that Bobo was an American invention: see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois-bohème -- "En France, le terme est plutôt utilisé de manière péjorative pour désigner des personnes aisées se proclamant de gauche mais dont les actes sont contradictoires avec les valeurs qu'ils défendent" -- and (in English) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobos_in_Paradise

Cheers,

R.

 

[Bill Clark]

A hipster is someone who takes photos holding the camera near their hip.

 

[FrozenInTime]

Classes of photographers - https://youtu.be/ZPNLjNDqy60?t=2m37s

 

[robert blu]

Now I'm confused...

I went to Venice, Venezia the one in Italy to visit the Art Biennale. I took a few pictures with my SX70...does it makes me an hipster ?

robert

PS: and I had the Leica x1 as well ...

 

[Martin Carone Santos]

People cal me hipster all the time. Ok, I use old câmeras and typewriters from 30's and I suspect anyone who doesn't use a Fedora. But I understand hipster something different, closer to hippie.

 

[B-9]

A hipster is someone who uses a film camera (e.g., Holga) to take pictures of their bearded friends and/or the sushi they are about to eat.

Not to be confused with a RFF member who uses a film camera (e.g., M2 or R4A) to take pictures of door knobs and cats, before inquiring about the proper Rodinal formula for stand developing the same.

Cf. DPReview member of the Sony NEX forum who asks how many X's their camera has.

Hahaha, choice analogy. Love it! But don't you dare forget the first RFF commandment, thou must take'th a photo of your camera sitting on a table next to a cup of coffee...

Cat photo's... hope Toms not looking 😉

 

[B-9]

I'm shocked this is a photography forum, and nobody has posted an image of a perceived "Hipster".

We calls these creatures "Bike Crusties" here in the Mit, they tend to move south when the fall comes. Kind of like Trailer Gypsies I guess.
You'll see the Capital area parks swarming with them on hot days.

Haha, you could proly shoot a whole special on NatGeo!

 

[Darthfeeble]

Just another trend, nothing to worry about.

 

[bhop73]

The most fascinating thing about observing high concentrations of hipsters in their natural environment (Portland, Williamsburg, etc.) is that they seem to be taking great pains to assert their individuality though outward appearance and behavior, yet their methods of doing so conform to such a narrow spectrum at any given time that they actually appear functionally identical. I believe one may have to immerse oneself in their culture to learn to identify the finer points of hipsterism. Any volunteers? At least you've already got cameras to accessorize with....

Hah.. your comment reminded me of a cartoon that I saw recently, which I just dug up .. it's punks, but it's basically the same idea.

Oh.. and here's my photo of a hipster


Very Hip by Brandon, on Flickr

 

[sleepyhead]

Paul, What’s wrong with being part of “the scene” ?

Most of us seem to be part of this RFF scene.

I mean really, you have more cameras that you know what to do with.

This is off topic (sorry), but was the last sentence (bolded by me) REALLY necessary?

This kind of discourse has been increasing on RFF lately, and is making it a less pleasant place to share information/photos, get inspiration and learn from others.

"Do to others as you would have them do to you" - ring any bells?

 

[Greyscale]

Yashica Penta J, Auto Yashinon 50/2, Kodak BW400CN, Sunny 16 by Mike Novak, on Flickr


DSC_0078 by Mike Novak, on Flickr

My nephew Chad, who has embraced the hipster lifestyle. Film photography, vinyl records, raves, indie and classic punk rock music, flannel and madras shirts, it's all good. He has payed for the rights to his lifestyle by spending much of his young adulthood in the deserts of Iraq.

 

[DominikDUK]

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois-bohème -- "En France, le terme est plutôt utilisé de manière péjorative pour désigner des personnes aisées se proclamant de gauche mais dont les actes sont contradictoires avec les valeurs qu'ils défendent" -- and (in English) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobos_in_Paradise

Cheers,

R.

That means HCB was the ultimate Bobo 🙂

Hipster is a term I come to hate not because of the people who are hipsters but because of those who use it as derogatory term for people who shoot amongst other things toy cameras and have a certain fahionable lifestyle, honestly who cares they have the right to use a camera as fashion accessory if they want to it's their money and if they use film cameras even better. Without hipsters the economy and the film sale would be much smaller so long live the hipster.

 

[micromontenegro]

So far, nobody's mentioned 20/20 vision, but uses glasses anyway...

 

[furcafe]

Seems like an echo of this post of yours from 2011:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101549

He wanted me to say something negative about him since he was feeling bad for saying something bad about me, I guess.

I said, "I don't know anything about you so how can I say something about you?"


He said, "You can call me a washed out hippie." (He was an older guy that appeared to be in his late 50s early 60s with long hair and 60s kinda styled clothes.)

I really just wanted to eat my surf and turf burger at this point and didn't respond.

He said, "I'm just writing down here at Starbucks."

I still didn't say anything. He walked away and I looked over at the Sea Salt restaurant wondering if it was 11:00am yet when they would be opening. I turned back and the guy was in the middle of the crosswalk looking at me with a huge grin on his face.

 

[furcafe]

You don't need Google. For the LA version, just look at the young(er) people in Silverlake, Los Feliz, Echo Park, & parts of DTLA.

I still don't know what a hipster is. Seems like it's anybody you're judging. I Google image the word "Hipster" and it's just pictures of what kids are into today.