hank bresson

He did this, he did that, this is what he used, this is how he held it, he ate this, drank that, walked like this, talked like that.

Would any of you like to smell my le' merde?

Le’ street photography has been dead for years, dead as a doorknob before the likes of any of you lugs were feasting on

your mamas breasts.

Back in my days street was street, roaming the streets, day and night, constantly prowling for something decisive,

something real. Why one night after enjoying several servings of absinthe into the le’ petite hours of the morning Gene

Atget and myself, oh and that crazy Brassai were strolling through Pigalle when we ran into a rabbi, a priest and an

Irishman, mmm, never mind that’s a story for another night.

Why we’d photograph all day and night regardless of weather conditions, in the morning develop our film in puddles and

do it all over again the next day and the next and the next. Never once did I hear Doisneau say “hey Hank, you think

street is dead?”

As I have always said photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they vanish there is no

contrivance on earth which can make them return. Around here it’s all the same old shots of the same old people

crossing the same old street, jumping over the same old puddle, over and over and over.

Le’ merde, there hasn’t been anything worth looking at never mind hanging since Josef and little Bobby Frank put there

cameras down.

The whole lot of you posers should trade in your cameras for photocopiers. Le’ Christ.

"Do you dismiss Mappelthorpe..."

Absolutely, additionally considering you can't 'see' the difference between studio and

street your rather sophomoric analogy is also worth dismissal.

>>>Same way I feel about those who shoot landscape, cars, wildlife, buildings,

statues, and boat marinas. Tired and way over-done that says nothing that hasn't been

said thousands of times before...

Not much different the endless stream of so called street photography.

In regards to Gilden....all gimmick.

D鳯l鬠鴩 hors de lui pour un peu et nouveau ࠴oute cette technologie.

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