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“Everybody Street illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to these artists. Covering nine decades of street photography, “Everybody Street” explores the careers and influences of many notable photographers––a number of whom have never been documented, 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."
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What I learned about street photography from the film everybody street.
How do street photographers behave?
they are patient, persistent and sometimes a little reckless. they are very sly, stealthy, agile and blend in to get the best photos of their surroundings. What kind of equipment do they use? they mostly use silent rangefinder cameras like leica cameras and some of them use SLRs. What kinds of subjects interest them? |
Why do they like photographing on the street?
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Elliott Erwitt
"I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones."
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt was born on July the 26th 1928 in paris, france.Elliott was influenced by his meeting the famous photographers such as , Robert Capa and Roy Stryker. Elliott has always taken lots of photos of dogs as well as stuff happening on the street, he has wrote four books about dogs known as Son of Bitch, Dog Dogs, Woof and Elliott Erwitt's Dogs . Recently he has been photographer and camera man in films like Glassmakers of Herat and Gimme Shelter.
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what is happening in the picture is a bird is just starting to fly and there is a car slowly approaching.
the image is in black and white this makes photo more interesting since there is so much detail in the picture. He is both close and far away from the subject since his subject is the street. I think he was standing still and the picture is in a slight angle. I believe he used a wide lens camera to take this photo. I would call the picture "freedom". What did the street look like when you took the photo and where did you take the photo. |
Challenge 1 Ways of seeingLooking Down
Position yourself in a place which allows you to look down on events and objects below. You could ask a classmate to walk by beneath you or you could simply capture the patterns, lines and textures that you see. TIP: Experiment with changing the framing of your image. Tilt the camera so that the arrangement of forms you see in the viewfinder works. Think about emphasising diagonal and cross-crossed lines for extra drama. |
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Shadows & Reflections
How can you create a photograph where your shadow or reflection or the shadow/reflection of someone else is included? Look at these examples and try to make a few images influenced by them. TIP: If it's a sunny day, pay attention to the shadows on nearby walls as people walk by. Think about which reflective surfaces you could use to capture your reflection - doors, signs, mirrors, windows etc. |
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Over the Shoulder
Lots of street photographers stand behind pedestrians as they are waiting to cross a road or walk down a street and take a picture looking over their shoulder. We see the back of their heads (sometimes the side) and the view beyond. have a go at making images like this yourself. TIP: Try to make sure that you place the person's back about one third of the way across the image rather than directly in the middle. make sure that the view beyond is also interesting to look at. Focus on the person in the foreground. |
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Cropping
Street photographers are often good at capturing odd details or cropping the scene in unusual ways. Look at these examples. TIP: Look carefully through the viewfinder and, instead of trying to capture the whole person or object, move the camera to one side so that only some of it is shown. |
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Walk on by
Street photographers like to capture the hustle and bustle of the street and people going about their business. There are lots of examples of pictures featuring someone walking past the photographer as s/he clicks his/her shutter. TIP: Experiment with focus, think about the background (not too cluttered) and the speed of the walker (or your shutter speed). |
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Surfaces
Wherever you look on the street there are different textures, patterns, signs and surfaces. Some street photographers are fascinated by all this visual information and try to capture it in their images. TIP: Look for interesting details - rubbish, cracks, signs, posters, text - and think about changing your viewpoint. Think about looking through fences to capture an unusual view of the scene beyond. Try to surprise the viewer with an unusual angle or composition. |
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My Group's photos
This slideshow is 8 of the pictures my group took together, my group consisted of me,Max and Kai and we all had different roles in the group.
I took different and unusual photos at odd angles while max and Kai looked for good photo opportunities and took photos of passers by. bottom left: this is my least favourite picture because even thought it's good it's not my type of photo i like to look at and it's slightly out of focus. ( while others are out of focus those are intensional ) bottom right: this one i had the idea for while looking at the lockers I had the idea that since the lockers look the same and are the same distance apart a good photo looking down the lockers would be a good idea, this photo is exactly what I wanted making it my favourite photo in the set. |
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Challenge 2 Diagonals
I looked out for any diagonal objects around the school and these are the ones I found the only problem is some of them have been flipped for some reason. |
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These photos below are three different photo sets put together I did this because these photos I took along side the 3 rule photos which I had to separate from each other which ended up with me merging to sets together.
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Challenge 3: rule of thirds
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The photos on the left are part of a challenge where we need to take photos of 8 different types of rule of thirds each with a different lay out. I also took some of my own rule of thirds as well as placing the camera on my shoulder and blindly took photos of my surroundings from a different view and kept and rule of thirds, I ended up taking there are 3 of these in total.
below are the rule of thirds we needed to follow. |
Challenge 4: compare and contrast
Ricky Powell's photographs are set in urban backgrounds usually in black and white. the photos are usually of people doing or wearing unusual clothing and most of the people on the photos usually are posing and holding something up to the camera.
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Elliott Erwitt's photos are surprisingly different they are usually of dogs or interesting obscured shots of people so much so we don't know if they are posing or just in persitions that are interesting but one thing that is the same is the photos are mainly in black and white.
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Personal street photography
For these photographs I went to battle in hastings near my holiday resort unfortunately some of the photos bugged out forcing me to use previously taken street photos from mcm comic com where I had taken many unposed photos with one or two of them looking posed due to people noticing me at the last minute.
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