Pic of the Day
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- Bluejam4
- AFROSURF - THE BOOK
Limited edition art book on contemporary African surf culture.
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- AFROSURF - THE BOOK
- drgs0
- https://www.artstati…imbecile
- The Thing series are good^drgs
- that's the one i went to as wellimbecile
- Comical little geezerPhrenological
- drgs0
- drgs3
- Gardener12
- lolfadein11
- laughs in DX7prophetone
- lolKrassy
- It doesn't look like anything to me.helloeatbreathedrive
- whatthefunk6
- Silicon valley 2025PhanLo
- Those were the daysMondoMorphic
- That’s a classic beauty with the brunette short hair. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.NBQ00
- So many memories....gonzalle
- i look so young in that pic.neverscared
- Sitting girl and standing guy have the same haircutscarabin
- bikini fridays is proven to increase work productivity by 37.2%Beeswax
- @neverscared, oh you're the one in the stripes? That's a pretty stellar pair you had, back in the day.Continuity
- @neverscared nice tits
why are they wearing shoes?sted - Whitehouse security briefing? (Circa 2018)utopian
- The future we deserved!Gnash
- Is it from an ad? What was it for?SimonFFM
- i still have the pair, wearing in right now..neverscared
- @SimonFFM yes.
Airflow Company, 1982,1983 Computer Decissions magazine
https://i.imgur.com/…sted - @sted Thanks! Now, this makes sense. Would love to shoot ads like this. But the clients have changed. Born 30 years too late.SimonFFM
- @Sim Well, not so much the clients, but the general public's attitudes have changed ... ;)Continuity
- freakpelican5
- https://stillasever.…freakpelican
- http://www.martincar…freakpelican
- The real street photography works shines in B&W, his color photos are trash, you need b&w to have real contrast and less color distraction from the main ideagrafician
- not to mention these are just snapshots, I have hundreds if not thousands of these kind of photos unpublished cuz they're not editorial worthygrafician
- also just because you shoot on film doesn't make you a photographer, you're just a hipster with a film cameragrafician
- this is something tho' http://www.martincar…grafician
- real (street) photographers also work in themes and series, if you want to be published, think always in seriesgrafician
- Shoot 10k frames for 10 good frames for an editorial. Shoot 100 frames good frames out of 100k for a book or an exhibitiongrafician
- Evil disney princess?AQUTE
- Also if you can't control the lighting, only shoot B&W, color photos with good lighting are for pros onlygrafician
- You need to destroy at least 2-3 DSLR cameras before going pro and into fine art or at least $5-10k of film worthgrafician
- When you are comfortable shooting, you'll think 90% and take the shot 10% so you'll end up with 10-20 frames max for a shootgrafician
- @AQUTE you're not cute, I had a photo studio until recently, I know my shit bro' chillgrafician
- Grafician his photos are great. Though thanks laying down your apparent rules for what does and doesn't make for a good picture.inteliboy
- Every single one of his photographs has a sense of meaning or metaphor or real life peculiarity to it that is far more than just a "snapshot".inteliboy
- inteliboy most fine art is b&w only, most fashion is color because you need to keep the clothes featured bestgrafician
- but who am I to judge, let Henri Cartier-Bresson teach you, look him upgrafician
- yeah I know who Henri is. appreciate the condescending comments tho. keep em coming.inteliboy
- "most fine art is x only" sounds like the shitest way to make or view art.inteliboy
- I don't give a fuck my dude, you need to practice safe photography, use a con...cept!grafician
- rules in art is dull. particularly in photography.inteliboy
- Going around town snapping shots of anything "cool" is not street photography, just like design you need to have a message with your imagesgrafician
- But that's not what his work is. You are projecting a viewpoint, that I often agree with, on the wrong photographer.inteliboy
- Shooting a clown with a mask in the subway is just observing. You need to put that clown in a setting to tell a story about him! That's photographygrafician
- You guys are too easily impressed by quick snapshots, what is good photography for you is nothing for me, condescending as it might sound lolgrafician
- oh well. guess that's just the way it goes. the critic and the audience. art has always been this way - eye of the beholder and all that...inteliboy
- Holy shit! I'm surprised to read such a vehement criticism of his work. There are a lot of his images i really dig.freakpelican
- He's a good photographer no doubt, but still way to go to be feature in anything like Time magazine or elsewhere, he's still doing snapshotsgrafician
- Why take this approach to a street photographer? Sure there are a countless number of people "doing it" now...freakpelican
- But his work is really solid and some of the moments he has captured are brilliantly composed bits of 'real life'. No concept needed and wtf time magazine??freakpelican
- For you, maybe, for us other photographers, these are junior level maybegrafician
- Like I said I have thousands of these shots in my archives, if you want to see true Romanian life, I could at best publish them with Vice Magazine...grafician
- Shooting everything i can get my hands on since i was first handed my grandfathers NikonFM2 in 1991. Staff photog for magazines/galleries... papers...freakpelican
- but thankfully i have an account on QBN so i can learn about photography from you! Thank you for teaching me about Henry Cartier-Bresson!freakpelican
- "For you, maybe, for us other photographers, these are junior level maybe"
Who the fuck you think you are ?i_was - @freakpelican well can you share some insights from your photography journey? I did and you're thinking I'm a smart-assgrafician
- Hey pelican, thanks for the share. I dig itfuturefood
- @i_was well are you a photographer or just offended of my condescending tone?grafician
- Btw I would never critique anything I couldn't or haven't done myself already, so...grafician
- Also if you think you're real photographers, put together a folio and apply just for the sake of it to an Art school for a Photo/Video degree...grafician
- ...that will humble you real quick, not to mention needing to learn all art and photo history, that would be great for you in the processgrafician
- Thankfully Graf you're not in need of any humbling yourself. You must have a degree with all of the humility you are showing.freakpelican
- @freakpelican my dude I'm in Europe, we don't give a crap about politically correctness or being nice, if something needs to be said we say itgrafician
- also being humble here means knowing somebody always knows more than you and respecting that, not patting ourselves on the shoulder acting nicegrafician
- if I tell somebody his work is crap I do that because I care and I want that person to grow, then I tell him how to fix his shitgrafician
- You in America just tell everybody their work is great and amazing knowing perfectly well even when that is not the casegrafician
- So don't fight me for being condescending or anything, just refine your taste in good photography if this is the case here...grafician
- wow, I'm going to bed, just leaving a note to hop in on this mania tomorrow.garbage
- "my dude I'm in Europe, we don't give a crap about politically correctness or being nice, if something needs to be said we say it"
So this is how Romanian thinki_was - ? does not surprise me, do you have a website where we can see your photography ? street photography ?i_was
- You're so fucked up, get some fresh air, instead of talking shite.i_was
- Uff. That escalated quickly.Continuity
- @i_was Balkan.sted
- https://media1.tenor…pablo28
- Ruth Vader GingsengPhrenological
- Again, I tell it like it is, it was my opinion, Idc if you agree or not, that's your thing.grafician
- But you guys in the US really need to get it out of your heads that only your opinions matter and everybody needs to agree with you on everything.grafician
- do you think the same of cinema verite style? I love that aesthetic, films by John Cassaventes and even Kids, not everything has to be Malick and Angelopoulos._niko
- 50 notes?? Get a room, you psychos!maquito
- also just because you shoot on film doesn't make you a photographer (...)
grafician
So.. whos a real film photographer? An old fart w a cam?maquito - Going around town snapping shots of anything "cool" is not street photography (...)
grafician
Ok.. enlighten us, street-pic Morpheus. What should we do?maquito - @grafician You doing wrong w yourself. Embrace the momentum. Professional cams and lenses are acquirable for NEW, YOUNGER, people. Chill. You’re good.maquito
- I’m not that guy who is easily impressed by a cool shot but by a huge rant. Bare w me. Street photography is shat it is. Why so mad??maquito
- Also, “being humble” does not only have to mean people know more than you, but to be respectful, and to understand that art is art. maquito off.maquito
- Rgb u are my herodeathboy
- Love ya graf, but you're doing some serious gatekeeping here. Sure you could romanticize about HCB and the old times. Capa developed his film in toilet water.garbage
- From the same era Erwitt took photos just like the ones you are griping about lacking a narrative. He's one of the greatest photographers of all time, and his..garbage
- ..bread and butter was the photographic one-liner.garbage
- Read Vilem Flusser, Barthes, etc. The immediacy and rampant availability of images has reached the point that photos have changed the way they change us.garbage
- There's no code, and it really doesn't matter what photo you have because it's getting washed away tomorrow anyway. We're all goldfish.garbage
- @graf Bumping because I want a response.garbage
- grafician1
Some "snapshots" of Henry Cartier-Bresson, just to put you young photo players in your spot...
You need to have a concept behind your photos, not just taking random photos of grannies with their lips out and calling it photography. Sorry to say but street photography got a lot worse these days with the advent of dslrs, smartphones, etc. just because you shoot Fuji or Leica doesn't make you a good street photographer, you gotta have the eye, you gotta have the thinking, and a quick finger on the shutter to take the perfect shot.
- I like both forms. Shame you're so militant. And yes, I do see your point (I think) that most modern street photography is trash. But Martins above is not that.inteliboy
- I only get a boner when I see true beautygrafician
- I have nothing against Martin, his "Other" exhibition shots are fucking great, I have a problem with you guys thinking photography is easy and anything "cool"grafician
- anything "cool" goesgrafician
- Recently I mentored a young photographer, she applied to the Academy of Arts here, won second place, she's in, but it took me 2 years to...grafician
- ...to have her get rid of all the photography cliches so she can get in 2nd in place even.grafician
- I by no means posted that one image + links thinking he is the END ALL of street photography...freakpelican
- Just found a lot of his images to be great captures of what i miss about living in a busy city. Sure, there just 'snapshots' i guess?!freakpelican
- Yes for sure, that's why fine art photos and street photos are not the same in any way. Street photography is observing, but fine art street photography is tellgrafician
- is telling a story about that moment, that's why street photographers are unknowns and photo journalists take the Pulitzersgrafician
- again we are talking serious street photography as photo journalism vs. tourist snapshots style photos heregrafician
- so unless you're thinking it thru A LOT your street snapshot is not going anywhere, just another shot in a sea of street shotsgrafician
- This is Pic Of The Day thread, Not Best Fine Art Photo Of The Day. I'm not sure why you're taking such a harsh vibe on his work.freakpelican
- You know, you're right, keep believing any photography is good photography, who am I to judge right lolgrafician
- Do you also shit on peoples taste in movies as not being true "award winning films"? Maybe publish some of your millions of unused images so we can judge yours?freakpelican
- That old "who are you to judge" stance is getting old. I made my point, take it as you will.grafician
- You are literally the one who brought up the "who am i to judge" stance. I'm taking you as someone with a chip on their shoulder as their only point.freakpelican
- I'm difficult sometimes, but all my tips to get better as a photographer are still very valid.grafician
- And I'm just tired of ppl thinking they know photography just because they shoot on film or are great designers 'cuz they run Adobe appsgrafician
- youre just projecting all this shit onto us. no one said his work was fine art, and no one said his work was 'cool'.inteliboy
- yawntank02
- Haven’t we all learned by now that art has nothing and everything to do with what you think it is? Pulling up HCB and holding his work as a litmus test for...ben_
- Younger artists is lazy. “Oh they aren’t THIS good” is the same old cliche art world gatekeeping.ben_
- You know, graf, here's the thing about all art forms: it's subjective. What you like isn't necessarily what I like, and vice-versa. And guess what?Continuity
- Both *opinions* (because that's exactly what they are) are perfectly valid. This is where the discussion starts and stops, as far as the appreciation of art ...Continuity
- ... goes. Yes, for many people, St-Henri is the end-all and be-all of photography. On the other hand, it's absolutely valid for someone to like the photo ...Continuity
- ... freakpelican posted. Maybe it resonates with them somehow. You won't know, because you aren't them, and it's really pointless to shit on their opinion.Continuity
- And it's nothing to do with 'telling it like it is'. That's a bullshit argument. You're not the world's leading authority on photography. Cool your jets.Continuity
- That said, I don't particularly like the photo FP posted, either. But that just, like, my opinion, man. And I'm perfectly happy if others see something in itContinuity
- ... that I don't.Continuity
- @continuity When did I shat on anyone opinions around here? I just expressed and shared what I know to be right. Yes, my tone was maybe off, but I that's thatgrafician
- Imagine if I told you these shots sucked, because I think they were. Why? I’m entitled. Why?... just because, my man.maquito
- Think about any single photo of the $300 book of lachapelle I gave to my wife as a present a few years back..maquito
- What’s the fucking concept behind any of those stupid shots? Being cool? ..man, I dont know why I’m even discussing.maquito
- imbecile7
September 20, 1979
- Robert SmithKrassy
- Kurt Cobaini_was
- As a kid I always thought this was stupid. Just give the damn guitar to the fans!formed
- It's funny, apparently it was really out of character for him to do that, but the the photo became iconic.
Clash city rockers!PhanLo - graf, is this a good photo? Tell me, so that I can decide if I like it or not accordingly!Continuity
- Yeah, he was getting pissed with the bouncers at the front of the stage and lashed out.face_melter
- Yes Continuity, this is an amazing moment captured beautifully.grafician
- Oh, that's wonderful. For a second, there, I was afraid I was liking something you didn't approve of ...Continuity
- Rod Stewart?pablo28
- I see everybody was actually offended more by my tone and not by my views, as many of you actually agreed with my pointsgrafician
- Elvis Presleyfooler
- http://www.feelnumb.…Gardener
- Adelle really let herself goNoggin
- Paul Simonon, the most photogenic person in rock history.CyBrainX
- ^ pretty much, he's an exceptionally good looking guy. My favourite PS story is when he signed up on a Greenpeace ship and no-one recognised him...face_melter
- ...he used an assumed name, but c'mon, how could you not clock him after he started talking? Like, you're in fucking Rude Boy!?face_melter
- classiccanoe
- tank020
Grafican, you are wrong about Black&White.
It's a bit sad that you create this narrow box for yourself.
Look at:
Saul Leiter
William Eggleston
Harry Gruyaert
Viviane Maier
Todd Hido
...Personaly I'm not fond of B&W because it's an abstration. I prefer color. But i'm not spewing shit like 'pay attention' blabla Cartier Bresson. I actually interviewed the son of the developer of Bresson. Guess who did all the magic. The developer. Yeah boy.
- I’ll add Daido to that list.ben_
- So let me get this straight: I can't have my opinions about photography here because...why?grafician
- @ben_ DaidoMoriyama shoots mostly b&w, for the same reasons I mentioned in my "rant"grafician
- @tank02 I'm not wrong about b&w, we just have different opinions and that's fine.grafician
- Also from your list here, I only knew Saul and Viviane and they both shot mostly b&w, Viviane even more so - if we still keep the discussion about street ph.grafician
- If the discussion spills into other genres, I could give you a very long list of b&w style photographers that were/are iconicgrafician
- Also I'm not making the art rules here or something, what's the matter with you guys?!grafician
- lol at not knowing the list. aren't you a photography teacher or something?inteliboy
- @inteliboy Where have I said I'm a "photography teacher"?! Re-read my posts...grafician
- I also gave Bresson as a big example of conceptual and b&w style of photography with great success and he is well known.grafician
- Also Viviane Maier was discovered recently, she is not in the curriculums yet I believe. Todd Hido doesn't do street, more like landscapes, but his work is greagrafician
- You‘ve never even heard of Eggleston? And you’re dictating what isnt art?nb
- Yeah just pointing out he also shoots colour and does both quite well, imo of course. On with it.ben_
- I was speaking to fraficiannb
