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Photography as Meditation
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Photography as Meditation

by Torsten Andreas Hoffmann
October 2014
Beginner
256 pages
4h 54m
English
Rocky Nook
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Street Photography

The term “street photography” came into usage in the 1920s, but there exist examples of these types of images from as early as the end of the 19th century, when photographers began looking beyond the ivory tower of static photography, a staged and idealized art form, to pictures of “life on the streets.” A type of photographer emerged who could drift through the city and its inconsistent cast of characters, capturing images using hand-held photography techniques. The underlying principles of the art form changed, allowing random, casual, surprising, volatile, and mundane urban life experiences to become the photographer’s subject matter. The camera found a new role as an extension of the subjective gaze, and the metropolitan ...

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