“Street photography” got a name from 20th century photographers who acquired new, inconspicuous hand-held cameras, and who roamed the public streets looking and reacting to what they saw. The word ‘moment’ was defined anew. With opportunity to photograph people without intrusion, big events and even non-events became subjects of art. The genre continues, though the stage has broadened beyond the street. The artist, the art lover, and critic, justifiably, ask “Why? and, How?”. Typically these photos are taken without confirmed permission from persons in the view. Though the public is becoming jaded to the idea of “having their picture taken” in public, the rule of law protects the taking of pictures of persons and places, except under circumstances in which the individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Privacy would prevail at home, or, at a private party or gathering place not viewable or accessible to the public.
Banquet room decorated to look like something other than what it once was: a solemn church basement
A clean, safe, reliable transportation, suffering mainly from contempt for it??
Continually changing images are real, reflected, reimagined pics of daily life.
A popular street performer drew in many spectators. The faces in the street show unvarying approval.
Humor in life can be found searching for it, in Warsaw, Poland.
Humor arrives at the Portrait Museum, Washington, DC: two standing in a window well, as if they were waiting in a short line, to nowhere?
While dining in a trendy restaurant in Santorini, GR, an unobstructed view of the caldera, way below and beyond, is broken. One always senses the edge of the precipice in Oia, as most of the inhabited land of Santorini is not more than a relatively narrow rock ledge. The waiter’s sudden appearance runs contrary to that sense of the edge. Nevertheless, patrons demand a view of the sunset, and the waiter magically walks on rarified air to raise the shades.
A sign bearer, not enjoying the humdrum.
Passers-by notice but may not acknowledge.
Chilean artist Jorge Selaron (1947-2013) shown with broom, swept the staircase daily to keep up with an inevitable, daily avalanche of trash. Travellers to Rio de Janeiro brought the artist gift tiles from their home countries for his use in assembling this tiled staircase. Many consider ‘Escadaria Selaron’ a masterpiece of public art.