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Garry Winogrand image

1. Garry Winogrand took photographs because he wanted to see what the world looked like. He spent a lot of time documenting the streets of New York, as well as getting a lot of his material from New York zoo. He liked to take photos that would upset liberal and educated people, as well as politically conservative people, such as his “couple in Central Park zoo”. Winogrand like to startle people out of what the thought was true.
   
   
2. Due to photographic technology improving and catching up with the times, street scenes no longer needed to be staged. The reason they were originally staged is because cameras couldn't capture movement without there being blurs in the photograph.
   
   
3. The “much misunderstood theory” is Henri Cartier-Bresson's concept of the decisive moment, where you press the button at your chosen time to capture the moment you want. Like with John Meyerowitz's New York street photography, a photographer's presence can influence the way people act, so you don't always need to wait for that decisive moment.
   
   
4. Garry Winogrand is seen as the godfather of street photography in the USA, documenting the busy life of the streets of New York. Taking hundreds of images, his work has inspired many other photographers and street photographers, including Joel Meyerowitz.
   
   
5. In 1896, photographer Paul Martin documented the beach in Great Yarmouth, He was able to photograph people looking natural because he disguised his camera as a brown paper parcel.
   
   
6. In the 1960s, Ed Ruscha documented gasoline stations, travelling a lot to take his photos, particularly among route 66. This images were about things not people, surface not soul. Unlike photographers like Gary Winogrand, he didn't want to show the human drama of the streets, but instead the backdrops of which these dramas occur. Ruscha has also documented parking lots from the air view and all the buildings on sunset strip. All of these locations are usually taken for granted by most people. Ed Ruscha said “when I was growing up photographers were either nerds or pornographers”.
   
   

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   William Eggleston tricycle photo

   William Eggleston photographs his work in colour, which use to cause slight controversy because many photographers, artists and other people believed that only apertures produced colour images, whereas professionals should produce black and white photographs. Eggleston photographed in colour because it required different structuring to black and white images. Colour can cause specific areas to be more dominant.
   
   
8. William Eggleston's photographs shows he is at war with the obvious. His images are dominated by colour, but the subject matter is still important. He documents the world around him, including people, objects and landscapes. Wherever he goes, the world travels with him.