2/16/2024 0 Comments 5 time travelers caught on filmGot my start in photography and street stuff using my fathers Rolleiflex way back in the fifties. This is a thread I can certainly relate to Lex. wisconsin /chicago chicago/powderhorn parkhyde park ![]() So now when I see from-behind voyeuristic photos of women's butts, taken by grown men, I can legitimately say "What are you, 12?"ġ974-75 from living in the streets to a tale of x2 cities, Minneapolis and Chicago I bought my first camera and setup a darkroom. Glad to see 'em again, anyway.Īnd a lesson in the Male Gaze concept. I hadn't figured out how to turn the 35mm camera sideways for verticals. Sharpness is a bourgeois concept, sez Saint HCB.Īnd apparently I hadn't quite mastered the transition from the square format roll film Brownie and Yashica TLR I'd learned on. Some frames are buggered from misloading the reel and from under-fixing/-washing. Shot using a Miranda Sensorex with 50mm f/1.8 lens, on Tri-X, which I developed either at the local Y camera club darkroom or in my friend's basement home darkroom. These were from a pizza joint in Mount Vernon, NY. Street photography has always had its rewards and challenges. And a Central Park horse drawn carriage driver trying to charge me money for photographing him and his horse. I remember a lady on the subway fussing at me for snapping pix of people on the train. I only knew of Weegee, but I thought of him as a photojournalist. Never saw anyone in the city snapping random pix of strangers - I'm sure they were around, but not in roving packs on every corner. I'd never heard of Garry Winogrand or his contemporaries. I had no real concept of "street photography" - never heard the term back then. ![]() Sometimes we'd venture into the city, although so far I haven't been able to find any negatives for those trips. So far I've found four sets of 35mm negatives, three on Tri-X, one on Ilford HP3 and a couple on 127 Verichrome Pan from my first camera, a Baby Brownie.īack then a photo buddy and I would wander around our town (Mount Vernon, a 'burb just a few minutes north of NYC), snapping pix of whatever caught our eye. Never printed them - I barely had enough money for film and developing. I was surprised to find these negatives from around 1970 when I was a kid growing up in New York, around age 12-13. What are your earliest street-ish photos? Film, digital, glass plates, cave etchings, good, bad, doesn't matter.
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