On Contact Sheets - Sean O'Hagan (Wed 02 Sep 2015)

iPhone photo album - Alexandria (Thu 03 Sep 2015)

Sean O'Hagan on Contact Sheets:

the contact sheet is a repository of evidence that can reveal both a photographer’s greatness – and their fallibility.

via Contact sheets: where the magic and chaos of photographs comes alive by Sean O'Hagan.

On Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Less Decisive Moment - Gaby Wood / Sean O'Hagan (Wed 24 Dec 2014)

Street Portrait - Paris (Thu 18 Sep 2014)
Gaby Wood (*) writes on Henri Cartier-Bresson (*) and the Decisive Moment (*):

The reason his photographs often feel numbly impersonal now is not just that they are familiar. It’s that they’re so coolly composed, so infernally correct that there’s nothing raw about them, and you find yourself thinking: would it not be more interesting if his moments were a little less decisive?

via Cartier-Bresson's classic is back – but his Decisive Moment has passed (*) by Sean O'Hagan (*).

On Gary Winogrand - Sean O'Hagan (Thu 16 Oct 2014)

Street Portrait (*) - Westminster Bridge (*) / London (Sun 14 Sep 2014)
Sean O'Hagan (*) writes on Gary Winogrand (*) and Street Photography (*) :

His subjects tend to stare back at his camera sadly or in a slightly bewildered fashion. Around them, the world tilts – the horizon line is seldom level – but there is always what might be called a Winograndian logic to his compositions, an instinctive grasp of the geometry of a good photograph. His interest was the rhythm of the streets and the people who created it.

via Garry Winogrand: the restless genius who gave street photography attitude (*) by Sean O'Hagan (*).

On Architecture and Photography - Alona Pardo and Elias Redstone / Sean O'Hagan (Mon 22 Sep 2014)

Untitled - Big Ben (*) / London (Sun 14 Sep 2014)
Alona Pardo (*) and Elias Redstone (*) writes on Architecture (*) and Photography (*):

Since the earliest days of photography, architecture has been the medium’s most willing accomplice.

via Constructing Worlds at the Barbican review – how photography fell in love with architecture (*) by Sean O'Hagan (*).

More On Photography - Saul Leiter - Sean O'Hagan / The Guardian (Sat 30 Nov 2013)

Covered - Split / Croatia (Wed 31 Jul 2013)
Saul Leiter (*) talks more on the mysteries of Photography (*):

I like it when one is not certain what one sees, [..] When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

via Saul Leiter obituary (*) by Sean O'Hagan (*).