Photographers such as Paul Strand, Jacques-Henri Lartigue and Walker Evans have recorded aspects of transport and travelling. Vehicles and travellers have been captured in distinctive ways. Consider relevant examples and produce a personal response.
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Nick Turpin
Nick Turpin's street photographs are often concerned with the way people move through the city whether that be on foot as commuters or pedestrians or using some form of transport. here's what he has to say about 'street photography' as a genre:
"Now I understand that 'Street Photography' is just 'Photography' in its simplest form, it is the medium itself, it is actually all the other forms of photography that need defining, landscape, fashion, portrait, reportage, art, advertising....these are all complicating additions to the medium of Photography, they are the areas that need to be defined, ring fenced and partitioned out of the medium of 'Street Photography'. When a child picks up a camera and pushes the button that simple spontaneous image is a Street Photograph, it is, first of all, a raw reaction to the scene in front of it, a person, a car, a color. That primitive urge to react, to make a picture is at the heart of Street Photography beyond any other area of picture making, it comes before any other agenda. So we are all Street Photographers before we narrow our sights and impose conditions and rules on ourselves to become Portrait photographers, Fashion Photographers, Landscape Photographers, Art Photographers (whatever that really means) etc." |
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George Georgiou
This images are from the series 'Transit Ukraine: After the Revolution'. This is how the photographer describes his idea for the project:
"As the country is going through a transition or a method of transit from one system to another, I thought it would be appropriate to play on this notion of transit by moving through the country on public transport, photographing as people move from Home to work, shopping, going out and selling goods around the transport hubs. This allowed me to move through the towns and Cities in a random manner, taking and photographing from buses, trolleybuses, trams and trains the daily lives of Ukrainians, moving from the centre to the residential areas and city outskirts and back." |
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Christophe Agou
Since the early 1990s, Christophe Agou, a French photographer, has been taking pictures of New York. He has developed a love for the city and an uncanny feel for the look of the ordinary. The New York subway has captured the imaginations of photographers from Walter Evans to Bruce Davidson. But never has it been so powerfully and lyrically portrayed as in Agou's carefully orchestrated sequences where the searing images haunt and intrigue us at the same time. Bridging the worlds of documentary and art photography, 'Life Below' is a series of frozen moments, revealing fear, love, affection, stress and solitude. These are compellingly intimate photographs of people from all walks of life, in a meditative state before they put on a mask.
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