Tag: street photography
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Embracing Limitations: My New Point And Shoot Project
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” That’s a quote attributed to Orson Welles speaking in the context of filmmaking. A rewording in the affirmative sense would be, “The ally of art is the presence of limitations.” For filmmaking that’s essentially budget. For photographers, that budget has essentially been the camera and print,…
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Shoot Like Steph
A couple months ago, I wrote about the key to capturing the Decisive Moment: anticipation. The key to snapping it isn’t seeing and reacting (as that’s usually too late), it’s sensing when it’s about to happen. Last night against the Kings, Steph Curry put on an anticipation clinic with 27 points and 12 assists, not…
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Street Photography Key: Anticipation
As handed down by street photography forefather Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment is the precise time and place street shooters hope to uncover and capture. The street is a public stage, with passersby as the actors stepping into its sun-lit spotlight. However, for most who walk through it, both as participants and unconscious witnesses, the…
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16 Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes On Street Photography
Last week, I found the 1973 Henri Cartier-Bresson documentary, “The Decisive Moment.” It features not only many of his most famous photos, but also his commentary as voice over. As a canonized Master of street photography and co-founder of Magnum, of course he could shoot. But, wow, can he talk a good game too! Upon…
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The Decisive Moment: An Henri Cartier-Bresson Documentary
In 1952, the Frenchman Henri Cartier-Bresson — street photography pioneer and perhaps its most influential master — published his book Images à la sauvette. Loosely translated, it means “images on the run.” The book’s English edition title was alternatively chosen as The Decisive Moment, thereby giving street photography its most definitive and well-known catch phrase.…
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Street Photography Motif #01: Money In Mouth
Since this is the first in what I intend to be a recurring series, I’ll begin with a general introduction. After discovering the street photography genre in 2015, my new year’s resolution for 2016 was to dedicate myself to its learning and practice; basically, to shoot and to study. For the latter, that meant finding…