Street Photography in an Image-Filled Age

There's an interesting article in the New York Times on street photography. Check out Street Photography in an Image-Filled Age.

In our media-saturated culture, everyone is a picture-taker and image-maker, adding a new wrinkle to the work of those who practice the time-honored tradition of street photography.

"It's harder and harder to take a picture without somebody in the picture who's also taking a picture," the Brooklyn-based photographer Gus Powell said on Tuesday evening, explaining that the mere act of taking a photo hardly makes him stand out in a crowd. "We all take pictures — that's what we do. It's more that your camera doesn't look like a phone — that's the bigger issue."

"Passo Doble". Photo by Gus Powell.

"Manhattan Noon," a solo show of Mr. Powell's photographs, opened at the Museum of the City of New York on Dec. 15 and is on view through April 20. To mark the occasion, the museum sponsored a panel discussion, "Eyes on New York," with Mr. Powell and two leading street photographers: Jeff Mermelstein, who is based in New York, and Matt Stuart, who is based in London and runs In Public, a street photography Web site. Sean Corcoran, curator of prints and photographs at the museum, moderated the talk.

The photos in Mr. Powell's new book, "The Company of Strangers," which accompanies the exhibition, were loosely inspired by the poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), whose 1964 book "Lunch Poems" recorded his impressions strolling around Manhattan at noontime.

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