23 responses to “Joel Meyerowitz 1981 Street Photography Program”
Marlow Drevel
A great guy and photographer.. Respect
mgu1N1n1
endlessy uptight self serving career focused meyerowitzzzzzzz…………
ressikanflute
Interesting hour. I think he is a better philosopher than photographer.
Aliyah Laeticia
Hi! Have you tried photo sfxart tricks (google it)? My friend Anna made some incredible pics with their photography tutorials.
MadWorldMadPeople
I just started with street photography and with photography in general, and even tho i shoot with a smile and i am polite i already had 3 conflicts with people who dident know the law, and i thought photography was a relaxing hobby XD
Marco Mazzei
Really beautiful video! Guys i would like to invite you to be part of my Facebook group called photoworldwide
Greetings!!!!
Marco
steven ichikawa
(cont.)
also, at the time of this vid, he’d already been shooting for years and im sure like winogrand he only used a single lens for his street work.. a 35 i think.
i can frame a 35mm lens without a VF pretty well only after a year of shooting it constantly so i can imagine that he already had an image of what he wanted when he saw it all he had to do was shoot it.
of course this is assuming i am right so im not 100% sure. maybe all his good shots are pure luck 🙂
steven ichikawa
ok i do want to make a quick observation myself though. meyerowitz is from the same generation as winogrand and i believe they regularly shot together early in their careers. if you pull up the Garry Winogrand- Fotograf vid you can see that he also seems to shoot with his camera half up to his face yet in interviews he always says he frames his shots up. i’m just guessing that meyerowitz shoots the same way.
David Williams
ok man i will take what you say on board.. humor me a little and have a quick look back at this video….i noticed most of the time he hasn’t got the viewfinder up to his eye before the shutter fires so he just cant be framing or thinking about composition…if you still disagree with me after that…. we call it quits 🙂
steven ichikawa
i wasnt saying that you judged his whole body of work based on this one video. what i am saying is don’t judge him as a photographer before looking at his full body of work.
“there is no skill in firing a camera in peoples faces as they walk past.”
look at some of his early color work and you’ll see that even though he does do this, he layers his images well and uses the entire frame unlike some photogs now who shoot at teles at the widest aperture and blur everything out.
David Williams
there is no skill in firing a camera in peoples faces as they walk past…sorry if you dont agree with my opinion but its as valid as yours is…and i wasn’t judging his full body of work only what we are viewing in this video….as should be quite clear 🙂
steven ichikawa
meyerowitz was a great street photographer in his day. i suggest looking at his full body of work before passing any judgement on him.
David Williams
wow this is a BS masterclass lol….interesting none the less though.
king5ley
“How do you know when to stop?”
“When you feel good!” Amazing!
Tom Carman
No 1080p…? Damn 80s.
SLACKER614
ive been doing street since 2005, my advice for self-important americans who dont wanna be photographed is, stay off the streets..
tshannon92
Im surprised at some of the comments. I don;t think street is dead, I love looking at street scenes from the past and maybe someday people will look at 2012 street photography and like it like we like that.
I really like Joel Meyerowitz, I love his enthusiasm for photography and I also like the way he communicates that to people no matterb what arena it is.
oldproji
Oh for crying out loud! Why do we have to bring street photography down to this fruitless level of academic discussion. Street photography is only a style of photography – it is unrehearsed, unstaged, and unposed, unlike a landscape or urban scape. Some people like it, some people love it (I do) and some people hate it. But it’s the image that should be enough to capture the interest without all the arty farty conversation. Great images, Joel.
darkroommonster
I’m surprised at all the Meyerowitz bashing going on here. Yea he’s a little pompous, oh well, he still is a great philosopher on photography and the his street images are top notch!
memeology
How can you say he’s aggressive? How can you say street photography is dead? I don’t understand. Firstly, I’ve never seen someone who was more like a ‘real life’ Woody Allen character. That’s not aggression that’s artistic neurosis.I think street photography is a beautiful and real form of art for the 99%. It contrasts sharply against the false images of the advertisers and the mass media who try to sell a hyper real, sick version of life as we are told it should be. This art for us not them.
Juan José Ortiz Arenas
no need to be bitter.
Simon Parfrement
That format of street photography is dead, all it shows is the desperation in the ‘photographers’ mind, exploiting people then scurrying back home to see what they have ‘bagged’ its embarrassing. Joel on the streets of NY is why we get a bad name.. clown hair’d punk freak! Joel the Magnum wannabe. Joel still does workshops today….teaching what? his own furthered, boring and self obsessed mind? *yawn* give it up old man. But yes get the 8×10 out ..slow down and maybe you might get a good shot.
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23 responses to “Joel Meyerowitz 1981 Street Photography Program”
A great guy and photographer.. Respect
endlessy uptight self serving career focused meyerowitzzzzzzz…………
Interesting hour. I think he is a better philosopher than photographer.
Hi! Have you tried photo sfxart tricks (google it)? My friend Anna made some incredible pics with their photography tutorials.
I just started with street photography and with photography in general, and even tho i shoot with a smile and i am polite i already had 3 conflicts with people who dident know the law, and i thought photography was a relaxing hobby XD
Really beautiful video! Guys i would like to invite you to be part of my Facebook group called photoworldwide
Greetings!!!!
Marco
(cont.)
also, at the time of this vid, he’d already been shooting for years and im sure like winogrand he only used a single lens for his street work.. a 35 i think.
i can frame a 35mm lens without a VF pretty well only after a year of shooting it constantly so i can imagine that he already had an image of what he wanted when he saw it all he had to do was shoot it.
of course this is assuming i am right so im not 100% sure. maybe all his good shots are pure luck 🙂
ok i do want to make a quick observation myself though. meyerowitz is from the same generation as winogrand and i believe they regularly shot together early in their careers. if you pull up the Garry Winogrand- Fotograf vid you can see that he also seems to shoot with his camera half up to his face yet in interviews he always says he frames his shots up. i’m just guessing that meyerowitz shoots the same way.
ok man i will take what you say on board.. humor me a little and have a quick look back at this video….i noticed most of the time he hasn’t got the viewfinder up to his eye before the shutter fires so he just cant be framing or thinking about composition…if you still disagree with me after that…. we call it quits 🙂
i wasnt saying that you judged his whole body of work based on this one video. what i am saying is don’t judge him as a photographer before looking at his full body of work.
“there is no skill in firing a camera in peoples faces as they walk past.”
look at some of his early color work and you’ll see that even though he does do this, he layers his images well and uses the entire frame unlike some photogs now who shoot at teles at the widest aperture and blur everything out.
there is no skill in firing a camera in peoples faces as they walk past…sorry if you dont agree with my opinion but its as valid as yours is…and i wasn’t judging his full body of work only what we are viewing in this video….as should be quite clear 🙂
meyerowitz was a great street photographer in his day. i suggest looking at his full body of work before passing any judgement on him.
wow this is a BS masterclass lol….interesting none the less though.
“How do you know when to stop?”
“When you feel good!” Amazing!
No 1080p…? Damn 80s.
ive been doing street since 2005, my advice for self-important americans who dont wanna be photographed is, stay off the streets..
Im surprised at some of the comments. I don;t think street is dead, I love looking at street scenes from the past and maybe someday people will look at 2012 street photography and like it like we like that.
I really like Joel Meyerowitz, I love his enthusiasm for photography and I also like the way he communicates that to people no matterb what arena it is.
Oh for crying out loud! Why do we have to bring street photography down to this fruitless level of academic discussion. Street photography is only a style of photography – it is unrehearsed, unstaged, and unposed, unlike a landscape or urban scape. Some people like it, some people love it (I do) and some people hate it. But it’s the image that should be enough to capture the interest without all the arty farty conversation. Great images, Joel.
I’m surprised at all the Meyerowitz bashing going on here. Yea he’s a little pompous, oh well, he still is a great philosopher on photography and the his street images are top notch!
How can you say he’s aggressive? How can you say street photography is dead? I don’t understand. Firstly, I’ve never seen someone who was more like a ‘real life’ Woody Allen character. That’s not aggression that’s artistic neurosis.I think street photography is a beautiful and real form of art for the 99%. It contrasts sharply against the false images of the advertisers and the mass media who try to sell a hyper real, sick version of life as we are told it should be. This art for us not them.
no need to be bitter.
That format of street photography is dead, all it shows is the desperation in the ‘photographers’ mind, exploiting people then scurrying back home to see what they have ‘bagged’ its embarrassing. Joel on the streets of NY is why we get a bad name.. clown hair’d punk freak! Joel the Magnum wannabe. Joel still does workshops today….teaching what? his own furthered, boring and self obsessed mind? *yawn* give it up old man. But yes get the 8×10 out ..slow down and maybe you might get a good shot.
Very aggressive……