There has long been a debate on whether black and white or color photography is better. Many love black and white for its ability to separate viewers from the subject and its ability to reduce the photo to its compositional elements. Y’all are wrong. 😉 Here’s a famous photo by Dorothea Lange, taken in July…
History lies. That is, the human interpretation of historical events is and has always been subject to change and distortion from historians. Stated more directly, people bend facts in order to substantiate whatever socio-political view they are expectorating. However photos, although subject to the same distortions as anything else, are unique in that they allow…
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’ve put together a listing of the top female street photographers in History. Some of these have been profiled before, others are being listed for the first time. We hope you check them out. More about these ladies can be found via Google and other such things. We’re late…
Index Part 3 Part 4 – The Transitional Epoch By the time the Foundational Epoch ended, shutterbugs had firmly established photography as an art form. Whether their primary intention was in proving the technology (a la Daguerre), displaying life on the streets (Stieglitz, Atget, Thomson), moving viewers toward social change (Riis, Hine), or simply having…
Part 3 – Chained No More – In which our jaunty photographers learn that street photography wasn’t invented with the Leica and really didn’t change all that much once someone finally invented some fast film. To this point in the history of street photography, which represents the emergence of a second generation of photographers around…
This is also the third of my Influences series that features photographers whose work has been a inspiration to me as a photographer. For more on Dorothea Lange, see part 4 of our series on The History of Street Photography. Dorothea Lange (26 May 1895 – 11 October 1965) was born to offspring of German…
Raw, Naked Art 