Comments on: Street (Video) Photography

By: shane j montgomery

shane j montgomery — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:35:58 +0000

saw this at moca sd - pretty amazing, i think you’ll dig it: http://www.wrichmond.com/current.htm

By: Michael David Murphy

Michael David Murphy — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:03:32 +0000

Keep us updated about that if you can, Eddie. Looks very interesting.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:57:21 +0000

Thought I’d pass this along, I just saw an exhibit at the museum for photography in Berlin that seems in tune with this idea. It was Raymond Depardon’s “Villes, Cities, Stadts”, which included a massive room with 12 projectors showing 5-minute uncut videos he made of street life in 12 cities around the world. For many of them he would just stay in one spot and follow people as they walked around or did their thing, moving from one person to the next sort of as though a torch was being passed. It was very meditative and definitely felt “street.”
Here’s someone’s photo of the installation on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nearnearfuture/397728669/
Don’t know where the exhibit is going next but there is a book out with the still images that were also in the exhibit: http://shopping.icp.org/store/product.html?product_id=26449

By: Peter Feldhaus

Peter Feldhaus — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:18:11 +0000

The German artist Katja Stuke uses partly street videos to create photographed stills from TV screen.
This method allows her to capture very specific moments in street life: http://www.ks68.de

By: Michael David Murphy

Michael David Murphy — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:26:09 +0000

Just watched the Man With A Movie Camera, Raul. Great stuff. Thanks for the recommendation. I’d never heard of it.

Thanks for the link to your video work, Brian. Excited to see where it goes.

By: Kevin Bjorke

Kevin Bjorke — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:47:14 +0000

I trust you’ve looked at sites like mediastorm?

Before Baraka and Koyanisquatsi there was James Benning’s “11×14″ which blew me away back in my school days. Today the internet finally gives this sorts of thing a more functional venue.

I also like Brian’s train video very much.

There was an Erwitt-direceted car commercial a year or two ago. Looked like a collection of std Erwitt stuff then revelaed the commercial message. Telling in the way that sort of street photography style is so easily interchanged with commercial imagery.

By: Ron Diorio

Ron Diorio — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:06:32 +0000

I have recently begun to collect video and have yet shift my aethetic work flow to engage with it. I have attempted a few more static image to video but looking to explore this more.

By: Nils Jorgensen

Nils Jorgensen — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:23:24 +0000

…and very much like your train video too, Brian.

By: Nils Jorgensen

Nils Jorgensen — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:16:08 +0000

…I like the man walking, actually quite funny.

I can see the day when we stills photographers are going to be asked to shoot video for our various publications, (instead of stills), as the move from newsprint to web continues. In fact it has already happened for some of my colleagues.

By: Michael David Murphy

Michael David Murphy — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:39:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Raul. Netflix has it.