Blog session 6, The Ecstasy of Street Photography

This is an article written by Sarah Bakewell, and it was publish in 23th of December 2010. This article start naming several common actions that we can see in the street, but we really don’t pay attention, but for a photographer this details are very important, because we must have the “eye” to notice all the details.
 

Sarah Bakewell talks about two artists (Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren) who make the book “Street Photography Now” who celebrates the controversial art of lurking in public places, and taking candid shots of strangers. This book also coincides with a collaborative online project with others street photographers.
 

Other point in this article is about the difficulties we can find in outdoors, for example in winter our camera-hand could be burn by the cold air or even a bad light is a real problem when you do photography, but the real challenge is the patience, because when you do street photography you don’t know what are you looking for, Sarah Bakewell says -Those beautiful, quirky moments can pass before you have taken them in, and sometimes you don't realise that you have "seen"-.

Another problem named, is about the problems that can generate this, other people can feel exposed when a strange take a picture of him, some consider it an infringement of privacy.

To close the article Sarah Bakewell talks about experience of other artist in the streets, for example Trent Parke says “The camera helps me to see”, and from my personal experience that’s really true, because we don’t have the same view from our eyes than a lent.

Below is the link to the complete article

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/23/street-photography-ecstasy

Thanks for Reading!