Window (2 of 2) - 5th Ave / New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)

Window (2 of 2) - 5th Ave / New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)

The Met - 5th Ave / New York (Apr 1994 / Aug 2011)

The Met - 5th Ave / New York (Apr 1994)
The Met - 5th Ave / New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)
When I took this photo on my recent trip to New York, I had the top photo in mind. Cropped it to get the panorama effect.

Two Photos - New York (Aug 2011)

First Republic Bank - Red/Yellow/Green (*) - New York (Tue 16 Aug 2011)
Red and Yellow (1 of 2) (*) - 5th Ave - New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)
Have started to print a few photos from the recent trip to New York (*) and have put them on the floor to look at and shuffle around. These two seem to talk to each other in way I had not connected until printing them.

The intersection photo is one of my favourites and it reminds me of Trent Parke's (*) famous intersection photo (*).

Fun to start relating the photos like this and will put a few more here.

An Embrace - 5th Ave / New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)

An Embrace - 5th Ave / New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)

5th Ave: A Special Hunting Ground for Street Photographers

Part of a conversation between Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz (*, *) about the latter's memories of his own early days as a street photographer in New York in the 1960s and his association with Robert Frank (*), Garry Winogrand (*), Diane Arbus (*), Lee Friedlander (*), and others.

Colin Westerbeck: Did Fifth always seem such a special hunting ground for you street photographers?
 
Joel Meyerowitz: Oh yeah. Because Fifth Avenue was the most exciting, and it had the most light.

I think Madison was too dark, Park was too wide, Third still had the El in the early sixties, or they were beginning to tear it down anyway, Third was creepy. Sixth Avenue didn't have much on it.
 
We certainly made some circuits around there, but really Fifth Avenue had the pulse of lie, the most vigor, the most beautiful women, the heaviest business action. The mix was best on Fifth.
 
I  mean, you got it all, from high fashion to messengers.
 
It just was everything. pushcarts, pretzel vendors, and limousines.
 
It had the contradictions of life in a big city, and that kind of counterpoint was the stuff of commentary.
 
That's what you could mock, that's what you could wait for, because it was more exciting to see those combinations there.

An extract from Still Going from Bystander: A History of Street Photography (*) by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz.
 
I really like the Lunch Series (*) by Gus Powell (*) and In Color (*) by Richard Bram (*).

I can definitely relate to what is said here. Would have influenced me a lot if I had read this before I went to New York recently. Meyerowitz's photos all just have that something extra when you look at them closely. Inspiring work for sure,

Red and Yellow (1 of 2) - 5th Avenue - New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)
Red and Yellow (2 of 2) - 5th Avenue - New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)
My Mom Totally Rocks - Green - 5th Ave - New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)
Intersection - 5th Ave - New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)

Intersection - 5th Ave - New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)

Intersection - 5th Ave - New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)

My Mom Totally Rocks - Green - 5th Ave - New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)

My Mom Totally Rocks - Green - 5th Ave - New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)
Love the way the long shadows (*) run up 5th Ave (*) and split the scene this time of day. The S95 does a nice job of capturing the range of light and shadow. It is fantastic camera for travel.

Red and Yellow (2 of 2) - 5th Avenue - New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)

Red and Yellow (2 of 2) - 5th Avenue - New York (Sat 13 Aug 2011)

Red and Yellow (1 of 2) - 5th Ave - New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)

Red and Yellow (1 of 2) - 5th Ave - New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)
She just stood out from the crowd and the other red handbag does not even compete.

Stepped sideways to the right just a little to get the orange and white safety pole across the intersection. Maybe it is a bit like this (*) or this (*) a couple of hours later. Definitely, one of my favourite photos from the trip - a very typical New York Street photo.