dominic_. Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Just out of curiosity, who/what got you started in SP? How long ago? While I would take the camera downtown once and a while, I neverstarted taking SP seriously until I joined PN about a year and a half ago. How'd you start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back_alley_. Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 i grew up in n.y.c., just seemed a natural thing to do. got my first camera, an oly 35 rc, in about 1971 and just started to shoot with it on the way home. joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sliu Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 I started SP with this picture ;-) <p> <img src="http://www.photo.net/bboard/image.tcl?bboard_upload_id=8716784"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_sidlo Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 grant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas_sullivan Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 grant, jeff spirer, mike dixon............about 3 years ago and some guy from Canada, whose name I now forget... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Like Tom said, grant, jeff spirer, mike dixon............about 3 years ago www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 <I>and some guy from Canada, whose name I now forget...</i><P> Robert Frank? www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
._._z Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Ian MacEachern ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas_sullivan Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 heh............no, not THAT well known brad and Z..... Brad...........Andy Laycock's friend from photocritique.....think they lived in the same city.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas_sullivan Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 got it...<br><br><a href="http://www.urbanimageworks.com/">J. Wayne Kaulbach</a>....wonder what he's been up to lately?<br><br>...sorry Dominic.........your thread again ;o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 "While I would take the camera downtown once and a while, I never started taking SP seriously until I joined PN about a year and a half ago." ditto. Wayne is still teaching at focal point, the last i heard. he used to submit to the georgia straight, page 3 content section, but not for along time now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie1664878514 Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 I started several years ago when a friend who studied photography in Japan introduced SP to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis_couvillion Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson. Almost thirty years ago I became aware of his work and it blew me away. At the time it was hard for me to imagine that most of shots were spontaneous. His compositions were elegant and it struck me that each element of his photos were properly placed even down to the bystanders in the background. I also had the benefit of being able to actually see his prints up close at a local gallery, A Gallery of Fine Photography in New Orleans, that still carries Cartier-Bresson's work today. In fact they presently have an exhibit of many of Cartier-Bresson's pictures. Over the years I've come to appreciate many other fine photographers whose pictures display a touch of humor such as Elliott Erwiitt and Mary Ellen Mark. One of my favorites is a lesser known Magnum photographer by the name of Richard Kalvar. However, for my taste, Cartier-Bresson still remains the gold standard, hero worship and all that other nonsense aside. Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furcafe Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Seeing the work of the "Hungarians" (Kertesz, Brassai, Capa). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie_cheung Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Frank, Kertesz, HCB, Levitt, Richards, Freed, Evans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- M. Dixon, Travis, M. Williams, R. Appleby, Beeflower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agardner58 Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 I didn't know it was street photography until I got to Photo.net, but I picked up "Like a One-Eyed Cat" by Lee Friedlander back in the late 80s and loved it. I must have been into it before because I've got a ton of NYC stuff from 87. I think I read a piece in Modern (or Popular) photography around then about Winogrand and tried randomly shooting on the street (with awful results!) And although not really a street photographer, I was very influenced by Ray Mortenson's "Meadowland". On PNet, the ones who got my desire to get back to the street would have been Travis, Jeff Spirer, and Mike Dixon. Since then, I'd say Maria V. Szulc, Ed Leveckis, Grant, Tom Sullivan, Beau, and certainly others have inspired me. Now I take pictures on the street every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
over exposure Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 I saw the Magnum show "Americans"...all that BW wideangle photography opened my mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Yank love in. Or, who who's the biggest gob shittttt.. His an all American hero...John Wayne the King. Give me a big bucket. What about old jiffras? he knockes out the odd decent shot. Jeez, you guys are hard to get my mind around..but you do the photo stuff. Anyway, i like Brads stuff....the supreme technician. Grant, when his hitting the note is there. Keep kissing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akochanowski Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Allen, is insanity contagious? Maybe I should wait to say something until someone else posts near you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 How'd you start? I sort of pressed the big button. Folk were wandering around in front of me doing their thing: found it interesting. Okay, bad start, should have looked at the icons on this forum and the greats which folks rattle on about. Just couldn't be bothered...sort of lazy.Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
._._z Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Allen's got some of that 3-hour peyote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie_cheung Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 >>>Allen's got some of that 3-hour peyote.<<< Trust me, peyote last much longer than 3 hours;*) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie_cheung Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 ...and don't bother to shoot either, one can barely read or write afterwardzzz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul a. roid Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 I started doing SP about 1 1/2 years ago using a digital camera,<br> not knowing what I did at the time - mostly 'street portraits'<br> with longer lenses. <br>I didn't know anything about the definition of SP. <p> After doing some research and viewing a bunch of websites I got <br> an idea of what 'street photography' really is...<p> Now I walk around using film cameras with 35mm & 50mm lenses, <br> doing nothing else than Street Photography for the most part... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akochanowski Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 yeah, Peter, brownnosing is bad, but full-blown nuts is worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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