NYC Street Photography B&W and color.

in #photography8 years ago

Bushwick at times reminds me of San Francisco's Mission District. It is grimey and grungey. Full of businesses and residences, often right on top of one another. But people are living and thriving there. Despite the air pollution and crowding.
I just could not walk past this confluence of vertical and horizontal lines without taking a picture.

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what I look for when I'm taking photos is the inexplicable. Some folks are into street photography for perfect candid portraits, or shocking images of crime, poverty or excess.
I like to find an object or an image that asks a question. How did this get here?
Why is a pair of slacks on a fire hydrant, in an industrial part of Brooklyn? Was it a sex transaction gone wrong? Someone's dry cleaning? A well dressed man high, way too high, on drugs?

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Sitcker tagging has always fascinated me. I remember years ago when hello my name is... stickers would show up already pre-tagged, and pasted literally everywhere. It was a cheap fast way for taggers to get their name up. But it's evolved over the years. Now we have people working with relatively large decals, wheatpaste, and printed stickers.
There is this very hard to comprehend current of sans-serif block letters, in short surreal sentences.
"STANG RIPPLES YOU".
Aside from the quirky wording, personality and individuality has been bleached from this sticker. They all seem to be very similar in font style. and terse 3 line structure.
Surrealist post-modern taggers?

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