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Curious as to what you guys think of Peter Funch's "Babylon Tales" He did an interview for Art World that I thought was really interesting Peter Funch posted:I liked the idea of shooting over a long time at one place and pulling it together, and I have always been fascinated by how we find and define ourselves as human beings […] I go to a street corner every day at the same time and in the same weather conditions and shoot passers-by from the same position and with the same settings. […] After a couple of days I will start to identify a pattern of ‘what people do around here,’ and then start looking for that. […] I shoot for 10 to 15 days, producing maybe 10,000 images at one street corner. I then categorize the people, build up the background and cut out the people and put them in. […] It is manipulated, but to me that’s not the point: it’s a photo which has been taken over a long period of time, a more cinematic version of Cartier-Bresson’s decisive moment. I know a lot of people who would have a problem with this because real street photography can't be manipulated  or whatever. I think the main reason I'm not particularly interested in street photography is because a lot of it is really stale.Like no offense TsarAleksi, but every street photographer I have ever met has at least a few of these "random business man with distracted expression" in their portfolios: TsarAleksi posted:Twenties Superstar posted:Street photographers typically use black and white film because it takes the mind away from A LOT of the distracting elements that come with colour photography and distil the impact of the image to the strength of the subject, and their action, alone. The only person I can think of right now who's done color is Eggleston. Also if any of you guys live in the Bay Area you should hit up the Robert Frank exhibit at the SFMOMA, it is really really good.
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How about some non-Western street photos? Interview with Hiroh Kikai: http://www.lensculture.com/kikai.html
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I saw that when it was up at the SFMOMA, it was pretty amazing and one of the better photo exhibits I've seen. Definitely go see it if you get a chance. They had everything from his contact sheets to his hand written rough draft of the grant proposal for The Americans.
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People who get really hung up on one camera or format over another are usually compensating for sucking at making actual pictures.
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Twenties Superstar posted:In the case of Chris Weeks however... In the case of people who don't suck it's usually them fetishizing their process. I'm not really all that familiar with Chris Weeks other than his editorial work, which I could take or leave.
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Are any of you guys into Hamburger Eyes, I just got #13 in the mail and it rules. A video about their photographers: http://vimeo.com/1632608 A Flickr set preview of the new one:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamburger_eyes/sets/72157622023208524/show/ http://www.hamburgereyes.com/ http://hamburgereyes.tumblr.com They also run one of the last darkrooms in SF, cool dudes + their zines rule.
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Couple of pics from the Oakland protest of the Meserhle murder verdict. Light was pretty bad and there were a few points where power was lost so not the greatest images. It was peaceful up until it got dark and the protest had ended, when a bunch of anarchists showed up and tried to agitate the remaining crowd and police. Fortunately it seemed like the community groups & cops were prepared this time and not much happened (at least compared to the actual riot that happened last year). Anarchist black blocs attempting to incite violence with graffiti and smashing windows:   Most people don't take the bait and get the gently caress out, OPD comes in arrests some hippies.   brad industry fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Jul 10, 2010 |
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:Looks like it could get pretty intense. Were you with a group of people? How did the police react to being filmed? It was pretty tame compared to the actual riot that happened last year. This time it was just a handful of Berkeley anarchist idiots unsuccessfully trying to agitate the crowd + some idiots looting one store. I thought this was probably the first instance I have ever seen of a police force handling a protest without pulling any poo poo (last year at the actual riot it was basically a free for all with cops beating & arresting whoever was closest to them). I wasn't with anyone but I also left right before they sealed off downtown and fired tear gas so I'm not sure what happened after that.
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