There are plenty of brilliant, yet unknown, street photographers quietly going about their craft. Sadly, many great images will never see the light of day as gallery prints, so we can count ourselves blessed if and when they do appear and we can get to see them. Luck has some part to play in this respect I think, although the Internet is a great place to display one's images without incurring too much cost. Fortunately, as luck would have it, Vivian Maier, whose work was found languishing in a storage lock-up by John Maloof, is now available for us all to share and enjoy. And what wonderful examples of the 'street photography' craft they are. But there are still lots of images that will never get noticed and that is sad. There must be hundreds of Bresson images, or Ian Berry images, that have simply slipped under the net, either forgotten about, or never been seen before. From this point of view, with such a plethora of work just waiting to be found and shared with us enthusiasts, there are exciting times still ahead I think.
Ian Berry is one of my favourite Magnum photographers. He is a British born photographer, photographing people around my home town of Brixton in South London in the 1960's amongst other London and UK areas at the time. My own interest in movie projection had led me to full time employment at a local cinema, so no time for still photography back then. But I do now wish I had followed in his footsteps as well as my own. My favourite image of his comes from South Africa, where he had moved to in 1952. It is titled 'Dust Storm in Lesotho, Maseru'. It is an interesting image on several levels but it is the fabulous print processing that fully caught my imagination and later inspired one of my own shots taken with the X100 LE (see below) and processed in Photoshop. It is not as dramatic as his shot, but it was the similar processing that I was after.
Ian Berry: Dust Storm in Lesotho Maseru.
http://www.phillips.com/detail/IAN-BERRY/UK040209/81
Ian Berry: Magnum Photos
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Ian Berry is one of my favourite Magnum photographers. He is a British born photographer, photographing people around my home town of Brixton in South London in the 1960's amongst other London and UK areas at the time. My own interest in movie projection had led me to full time employment at a local cinema, so no time for still photography back then. But I do now wish I had followed in his footsteps as well as my own. My favourite image of his comes from South Africa, where he had moved to in 1952. It is titled 'Dust Storm in Lesotho, Maseru'. It is an interesting image on several levels but it is the fabulous print processing that fully caught my imagination and later inspired one of my own shots taken with the X100 LE (see below) and processed in Photoshop. It is not as dramatic as his shot, but it was the similar processing that I was after.
Ian Berry: Dust Storm in Lesotho Maseru.
http://www.phillips.com/detail/IAN-BERRY/UK040209/81
Ian Berry: Magnum Photos
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_2_VForm