Joel Meyerowitz on Vivian Maier:
To go up and photograph a stranger on the street you have to hold your ground and be fearless and take what you want because it is yours.via Vivian Maier BBC Imagine (2013) by Joel Meyerowitz.
Will see an exhibition of Vivian Maier photos in Vienna in mid-July.
[Lucky enough to have stumbled across this today ..]
Joel Meyerowitz was given a "found" bible by a fireman while he photographed Ground Zero in the months following the 9/11. He marveled that the Bible was preserved intact to a lump of steel, and even more, that it was turned to a particular passage from Matthew 5 (KJV) which says:
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also” (vs. 38-39).
Joel notes ..
"Of all the pages in the Bible that it would be open to, that was remarkable,"A remarkable communicator, spoken, written and photographed. Thanks Joel, a timely message.
Joel Meyerowitz on Street Photography:
[street photography is] an arms-length contact with somebodyvia Spain : Miss Maier by Tintin Törncrantz by Tintin Törncrantz.
Joel Meyerowitz on Love and Loss:
All is being lost and yet there is nothing to do but love and care for them while watching the decline.via All is being lost (Fri 26 Jun 2015) by Joel Meyerowitz.
Some might say I am stuck in past. But I don't really care about those thoughts. It's too hard to be anything other than who I was. These are my memories and they all I have now.
The power of photography to remember. They are all about the past from the very moment they are taken. So maybe all I am now is just a photography of love, loss and a life that was well lived.
I finally had to stop [..] and give it a moment of my timevia Unknown (14 Dec 2015) by Joel Meyerowitz.
Had to stop and photograph this one. I was reminded of this photo I took in Madrid in Aug 2013.
Joel Meyerowitz on Reflection:
Reflection; the act of, not the image of, is a way of reconsidering where we are in relation to reality. Reflecting pools have for a long time been places where one could contemplate the difference between the illusion and the real.via On Reflection by Joel Meyerowitz.
Earth, air, water, and the light was the last fire of the sun, and it kindled every thing together into a bloom of evening beauty. I always try and choose to put myself in the way of beautyvia Kindling (Mon 05 Oct 2015) by Joel Meyerowitz.
Joel Meyerowitz on Photography:
awe comes in many different, and unexpected forms, and will surprise me if I simply take the time to stand before it and allow myself to be taken invia Fri 02 Jan 2015 by Joel Meyerowitz.
Joel Meyerowitz on Photography:
The challenge of staying with something every single day is one of the great learning experiencesvia 02 Jan 2015 by Joel Meyerowitz.
Mike Johnstone writes:
you only need to know what you need to knowvia Mastering Photographic Technique by Mike Johnstone.
And, in the same thought, maybe to help you through any procastination:
you only need to do what you need to do
Joel Meyerowitz writes on Ambiguity:
ambiguity is part of what makes seeing and then photographing so interestingvia Ambiguity by Joel Meyerowitz.
Joel Meyerowitz writes on Ordinariness:
the ordinariness of it all made me reach for the cameravia Contadina by Joel Meyerowitz.
Saw this a mile off and I knew there was a photo amongst it all.
Joel Meyerowitz writes beautifully on a Moment:
These simple moments are precious, no attitude, no becoming something she is not. She's just there, rooted to the earth, part of the spirit of the place.via Contadina by Joel Meyerowitz.
Joel Meyerowitz on Light and Dissonance:
There are 2 kinds of light; natural and man made, and often we find ourselves in the presence of both but fail to consider the photographic possibilities that their dissonance presents.via Dissonance by Joel Meyerowitz.
And a note on exposure by Matthew Kees:
exposure is a creative tool, not a right or wrong. This picture is correctly exposed for what you were going forSomething I was glad to be made aware of so early on and something I have always remembered. Thanks Matthew.
Joel Meyerowitz on Photography and a Moment:
It's always fun to turn the tables on someone who is filming you and do it back to them. If nothing else it becomes a record of the moment, and that has value too.via Turn the Tablle by Joel Meyerowitz.
And so I did and so it was.
Joel Meyerowitz on Photography:
it's the going back that counts.via Ordinary Places by Joel Meyerowitz.
I would have to say Circular Quay is not an ordinary place, based on the throng of tourists and locals down at the Quay yesterday.
It was a magnificent sun soaked winters day afternoon, with thousands of people enjoying the light, space and atmosphere of the nautical gateway to the City, at the footsteps of the Sydney Opera House.
We were in town for a Birthday Lunch for Janice who we lost in April . The lunch at Customs House was spectacular, not only for the view and food, but the company of Janice's immediate family. Janice would have loved it. And that we were all there together, remembering her.
Afterwards, we strolled around the Quay, through The Rocks, under the Sydney Harbour Bridge and back. As we strolled past the Bounty, I was reminded of my 2003 photo above (along with my photo.net post made back then) and made a similar photo as the sunset.
Looking at the scene yesterday and the photos now, what surprised me was that after 12 years, how similar the two scenes were. At the macro level, the Bounty and the Opera House, appear identical, but I am sure when I look closely, there will be micro changes representing maintenance and technological progress that 12 years brings.
With these two photos, also comes the change in my "vision", my cameras (Canon IXUS S100 then and Canon S120 now, and a few in between) and words. As they say, "same same, but different". The difference probably being my experience in photography and life. In many ways, the camara is now an extension of my hand, I know what it sees and it knows what I feel through the resulting photos it exposes and brings to my life and this world. I am constantly and pleasantly surprised by the power of photography and what it reveals to me.
The two photos represent a passage of time in themselves and my implied meaning assigned to the Jul 2003 photo, along with my words at photo.net back then. Together now, the two photos above, represent the passage of 12 years of time in my own life where everything has changed so much.
So pleased we went back and I now have these photos and memories. Without the photos, the motivation to make them and assigning some connection to them, these memories and thoughts would most likley be lost.
As always, thanks Joel Meyerowitz. I never know where a thought and a few well chosen words will take me.
When I look at one of my photographs, I do not see what you see. I see the moment on the street where I made the photograph and I feel into that experience. Simply put, I do not see objectively (*) - my viewing is subjective (*).via Joel Meyerowitz and Twelve Other Street Photographers on Their Best Photographs (*) by Michael Ernest Sweet (*).
best is a superlative, yet for any[one..] best also signifies a work from different periods of development and growing consciousness.via Huffington Post and my best street photograph - alexcoghe (*) by Alex Coghe (*).
when people gather on the corner, you never know if something is going to happen.via Joel Meyerowitz - Street Photography (YouTube) (*) by Joel Meyerowitz (*).
It’s a beautiful system, this game of photography, to see in an instant and go back and think about later on.via Joel Meyerowitz on What He’s Learned: Part II (*) by David Walker.
It’s pure philosophy. And poetry.”
