"99 % Of Street Photography is About Failure": Check out Alex Webb's Street Photos
Quoth the New York Times "Lens" blog:
"For someone who says 99 percent of street photography is about failure, Alex Webb has had a notably successful career..."
I agree—both with his assessment about the success rate (1% seems about right) and the Times' assessment that for Alex Web, getting it wrong 99 percent of the time has led to a very successful career as a street photography-influenced photojournalist.
I always tell my street photography students to study good street photos. For any street shooter, Alex Webb's work is worth studying. Carefully.
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"For someone who says 99 percent of street photography is about failure, Alex Webb has had a notably successful career..."
I agree—both with his assessment about the success rate (1% seems about right) and the Times' assessment that for Alex Web, getting it wrong 99 percent of the time has led to a very successful career as a street photography-influenced photojournalist.
I always tell my street photography students to study good street photos. For any street shooter, Alex Webb's work is worth studying. Carefully.
Go there now!
I couldn't agree with you more. When I found out Alex's works, I was very glad and shocked at the same time. By that time, I had been quite frustrated with the contradiction of my b&w and color images. Because whenever I tried to take color photograph, my habit of B&W photography affected me in the first place. But whenever I saw Alex Webb's works, I think he really found his own way to combine these two ways of seeing:B&W and color. Although that was his own brilliant solution to mix together, but it gave me a sort of possiblities to find my own ways to work with these two medium. One of my favorite works of Alex Webb, "Crossing Borders" wouldn't touch my heart that strongly if he used B&W. Thanks for sharing your thought.
ReplyDeleteAnd happy new year! :)