Topic: Looking at this picture by Alex Webb...

[hookstrapped]

I was telling Satish last night how I came across Alex Webb's work from a couple different sources in the past week, and how my street work (with my phone, sorry) has evolved to value what Webb pioneered in his street work -- vivid saturated colors and deep shadows. Then I showed him this




We were both awestruck and speechless. It inspires you to go out and shoot with even more dedication because it's so marvelous, or it makes you want to hang it up because it's so marvelous.

[hookstrapped]

And this

[jharr]

Wow those are inspiring and intimidating. Is he using a phone? The DOF is like f/32 or even f/64.

[hookstrapped]

Wow those are inspiring and intimidating. Is he using a phone? The DOF is like f/32 or even f/64.

A 35mm camera. Kodachrome.

[gsgary]

I'm a bit surprised you only found out about him a few weeks ago with him being a member of Magnum

[hookstrapped]

I'm a bit surprised you only found out about him a few weeks ago with him being a member of Magnum

Oh, I was already familiar with his work, but reading two articles in the past week that mentioned him brought him to the forefront of my overstuffed mind

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/magazine/perfect-and-unrehearsed.html

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2015/11/imitation-is-the-sincerest-form.html (this linked to a display page of prints for sale at Magnum and prominent on the page was the first photo posted here)

[Ed Wenn]

gsgary: I honestly don't think I'd know too many of Magnum's current (or recent) roster...and that's not from some form of inverted snobbery; I just don't know photography that way. I stumble across stuff. Like this post 

[gsgary]

gsgary: I honestly don't think I'd know too many of Magnum's current (or recent) roster...and that's not from some form of inverted snobbery; I just don't know photography that way. I stumble across stuff. Like this post 

My wife has bought me Magnum books over the past years so I'm familiar with most of them

[SLVR]

I feel like a lot of what people call "street photography" these days is trying to emulate the examples above. What gets lost is that I feel like some people can't appreciate these images and just think that they are random street snaps.

I see too many random street snaps in this style but just empty, nothing there.

Good examples though. I like these very much.