[Leica] Street Photography, Winogrand Style

[richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

I like those paragraphs very much as well. However - no need to "justify"
any pictures with writing from other people, even a great photographer's :-)

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:10 PM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote:

> "PJ student Larry C. Price and I took Garry?s class at the same time.
> Larry and I were both from Corpus Christi and had attended Del Mar
> College at the same time. We had a lot of classes together and did a
> lot of photography in the area together on weekends or between
> classes. We didn?t have any money to do anything else so we spent a
> lot of time together. To try to describe how good a photographer Larry
> is, I?ll just say that he is ? I believe ? the only two-time winner of
> the Pulitzer Prize for Photography and he did it for two different
> national newspapers. Larry pinned some absolutely beautiful images on
> the wall and while the rest of the students were gathered around
> admiring them, Garry took a look and walked on. That was a sign he
> didn?t like them. They weren?t Garry?s style; they were not his kind
> of art.
>
> Garry seemed to have a photographic memory of sorts. For one of my
> weekly Daily Texan assignments, I had shot a restaurant that featured
> belly dancing at lunch. I played around with some slow shutter speeds
> and liked the motion in those images the best. I submitted one to that
> night?s photo editor and it ran in the Texan the next day with a story
> by someone on the news writing desk. A few weeks later I tacked that
> picture on the wall and Garry instantly remembered seeing the
> photograph in the Texan. He didn?t like it. But he did like another I
> shot with a wide angle which offered the reaction of some of the
> patrons to the belly dancer.
>
> That was a particularly important turning point in my understanding
> Garry?s vision. For here was a classic confrontation of different
> photographic disciplines ? a belly dancer caught waving her tutu
> around that the photo editor liked, but Garry didn?t. Yet he liked the
> shot taken moments later with the eateries? patrons reacting to the
> dancer. Perhaps I was learning something not only about seeing and
> framing, but about photography."
>
>
>
> this relates i think to the reaction of people on LUG to the photo of
> the boy with the roving eyes :-)
> bharani
>
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