“Street photography” got a name from 20th century photographers who acquired new, inconspicusous “hand held” cameras. The word ‘moment’ was defined anew. With opportunity to photograph people in action without intruding, ordinary events and non-events become subjects of art, often appearing extraordinary, thought provoking, often humorous. The genre continues, and the artist, the art lover, and critic, justifiably, ask “Why? and, How?”.
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.
The controversial copper clad ‘Vessel’ in NYC does not imitate and attracts many onlookers.
Humor in life can be found searching for it.
For decades, a thoughtful man has had a year round, daily routine. Birds flock to him, while mostly ignoring others for reasons not known, in Washington Square, NYC.
Humor arrives at the museum: two standing for a moment in a window well, as if they were waiting in line?
A sign bearer, not enjoying the humdrum.
Passers-by notice but may not acknowledge.
The artist Selaron shown in picture (1947-2013) swept his staircase daily to keep up with an inevitable, daily avalanche of trash. Travellers to Rio de Janeiro brought tiles from their homes for his use in assembling this public art, some consider a masterpiece of ceramic art.