Sezen Aksu's "İstanbul Hatırası", from the movie "Crossing the Bridge" is one of my favourite clips. With the singer's rendering effortly absorbing all the attention, I hadn't looked at the old pictures that were shown in the clip. Until this evening, when I realized that they were all Street photography, and the kind that I've come to like: not focusing on photography, but on the human story and emotion in front of the camera. I wonder how many of these photographers had even heard of Henri Cartier-Bresson or Gary Winogrand? However - no fancy composition and rhythm, no negative space, no visual jokes - just human emotion.
donderdag 1 december 2011
Old Istanbul
Sezen Aksu's "İstanbul Hatırası", from the movie "Crossing the Bridge" is one of my favourite clips. With the singer's rendering effortly absorbing all the attention, I hadn't looked at the old pictures that were shown in the clip. Until this evening, when I realized that they were all Street photography, and the kind that I've come to like: not focusing on photography, but on the human story and emotion in front of the camera. I wonder how many of these photographers had even heard of Henri Cartier-Bresson or Gary Winogrand? However - no fancy composition and rhythm, no negative space, no visual jokes - just human emotion.
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