What Makes a Good Street Photograph? - Take it or Leave it with Bruce Gilden
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Meet Bruce Gilden. He's one of our favorite Magnum photographers, and in case you're clueless, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship this past year and is known to be one of the badassest badasses in the business. When we asked him to film a new show, he agreed on the terms that it wouldn't suck and, if it did, we'd let him sock us in the face.
This is Take It or Leave It with Bruce Gilden, a photo-critique series in which Bruce tells up-and-coming photographers if their work is transcendent, total crap, or somewhere in between. In our second episode, he takes on the world of street photography.
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The one thing I took away from this was, “this photograph doesn’t make me ask what’s going on”. Always a good benchmark when taking/creating a photograph.
Although this guy is brutal with his criticism, it was very constructive to the way I now see photos
We need more people like this in the arts. Highly critical of the art because today society is obsessed with everything is good
This guy is the inspiration behind Peter Parker's editor-employer in Spiderman.
Did that piece of string on the pencil annoy anyone else or am I going mad?
Quit hating on the guy. Honest criticism is way more valuable than empty compliments.
The story he makes up about the people on the beach is hilarious.
95% of what he says is pretty accurate and any person who spent several years taking photos and gave it any more attention beyond just pushing the trigger button would understand. All the haters here who are just expressing their own fears and/or don't have the balls to shoot decent street are ridiculous. Street photography IS one of the hardest to do. That's why his criticism is harsh as well.
damn a longer version of this would be a dream
says he didn't like the apple but then it leads him to a like two minute long analysis thats all deep and prophetic...
As a photographer I say this series is GREAT!
Everyone talking about his analyze but what bother me the most is his pencil
I like Bruce Gilden. He knows photography and knows how to convey constructive criticism in what can be a very subjective field.
the analyze of the photograph with that apple in it was amazing..
I'm actually learning from this. It's entertaining as well.
As a photographer trying to shift for editorial portraits to street photography this is very helpful! Honestly this is the kind of critique that I look for!!
Being an amateur street photographer, I totally agree on his points about composition and other photographic thumb rules. Having said that I do not agree with his comment on the photo with a fellow holing the gun to his friend in a very jovial way, it is a good photo and makes the viewer concoct a story in his/her head. The fact that someone else has already taken a similar photo should not have to lower it's value .
"look at us Americans. aren't we ignorant?"
The string on his pencil is driving me nuts
People if you can't take honest critisism and are offended by everything, photgraphy isn't for you... or anything for that matter