Ziv Li (Zhenyu)
Chelsea Cossu
Digital Still Photography for Non-Major
11 /16 /2014
Assignment 4
Photography is a science and a technology, which is by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation. In order to produce durable in the practical application of the image, through chemical method by photosensitive material device, such as photographic film, or electronically by the image sensor device. Street photography is an important link in the photography chain. Street photography is photography that features the human condition within public places, but does not necessitate the presence of a street or even an urban environment. It’s an unbroken tradition, stretching back to the invention of photography itself.
A great street photograph may only show us in one-hundredth of a second of real life. Indeed, all the images in this book probably only account for two or three seconds combined. A great street photograph must elicit more than a quick glance and moment of recognition from the viewer. Street photography can seem deceptively simple, and occasionally a great photograph is casually shot or chanced-upon by an amateur.
You can’t really talk about street photography without mentioning Walker Evans. Evans was an American photographer, who was born on November 3, 1903 and died on April 10, 1975. He was best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. He said that his purpose as a photographer was to take pictures that were “literate, authoritative, transcendent.” Many of his works are very famous and on display in museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Evans took up photos around 1928s when he was living in Ossining, New York. His influences include Eugene Atget and Auguste Sander. In 1930, he published three songs in the photo book “Bridge Hart Crane.” In 1931, he took photo series of Victorian houses in the Boston vicinity sponsored by Lincoln Kirstein. In 1933, he photographed in Cuba on assignment for the publisher of Carleton Beals’ then-forthcoming book, The Crime of Cuba, photographing the revolt against the dictator Gerardo Machado. In Cuba, Evans briefly knew Ernest Hemingway.
Evans would never have described himself as a “street photographer”. In the 1930s and the 1940s, this period was the top of his career. He still described himself as someone who solicited strangers, and often shot at tourist landmarks and holiday destinations, offering to take people’s portraits for a fee. Evans thought “street photographer” was too limited, because he drew inspiration not only from the street, but also from the metro station, the porch and the park. He found inspiration in any place he could see and understand honest people living their daily lives. His deliciously provocative instructions reveal the essence of what is now known as “street photography”: the impulse to take candid pictures in the stream of everyday life.
Through bud, Freud Baolai and Frank Tingling, led by the three families, living in Akron, Alabama, and work in the family land owner told them that Evans and Agee is “Soviet Spy”, although Ellie Mae Baolai, Freud’s wife, later deducted from the proceeds at the time of her interview with the information out. Photos of family Evans made their misery and poverty during the great depression of the icon. Evans to continue the work of the year the FSA, until 1938, an exhibition, walker Evans: the picture, held in modern art, the museum of New York. This is in the museum dedicated to a single photographer works on display for the first time. This directory contains an accompanying article Lincoln Cole Stan, which Evans met and he at the beginning of the New York.
In 1938, Evans also with him the first photo, in the New York subway camera hidden in his coat. These will be collected was written in many known as champion in 1966. In 1938s, Evans has worked with Helen Levitt and guidance. Evans, such other photographer Henri Cartier – Cartier-Bresson, spend little time in the darkroom from his own film making prints. He is very loose supervision of most of his photo prints, sometimes only attached handwritten notes and film on certain aspects of print program instructions.
Evans is a passionate reader and writer, and became a staff writer in 1945 for Time Magazine. Shortly thereafter, he became an editor at Fortune magazine in 1965. He also became a photography teacher and a professor of graphic design at the Art Institute of Yale University. In one of his last photography projects, Evans finished Brown Brothers Harriman’s office and publishing partners in black and white combination, bank “partners”, published in 1968 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the private bank. In 1973 and 1974, he also took a long string of words, the new polaroid SX -70 cameras, age and poor health made it hard for him to carefully designed equipment to work normally. In 1971, the museum of modern art on further the works of the titled simply walker Evans.
Resource:
Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren — STREET PHOTOGRAPHY NOW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Evans
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