A Photographer's Newsletter`
Street Art, and then some
A while ago (longer than I remember) I discovered the work of a photographer/artist named Syl Labrot. Many times since, more recently, I have tried to find more examples of his work, but none of them are the brilliant ones I remember seeing long ago. Labrot may have been the original Street Photographer; at least he was for me, as is work was imagery of things one doesn’t usually choose as subject matter—messed up garbage dumps, piles of rubbish, and the like. His “street art” was not the same as the acknowledged masters: Ernst Haas, Saul Leiter, and the newly discovered genius of Vivian Maiers. By the way, a wonderful comprehensive list of street artists by the School of Photography can be found here:
<https://www.theschoolofphotography.com/blog/famous-street-photographers>
Most of my early work was either covering events or famous individuals for paying clients or for some self-assigned project like my US 11 essay. I was lucky in my career because the cell phones with the latest (remarkably effective) cameras built into them had not yet been invented. These days, a lot of what I photograph is just stuff that’s simply there. Sometimes, you walk right over it:
And sometimes it makes you wonder whether the guy who puts tar in the street cracks is related to Franz Klein:
Sometimes you walk right past a scene that is already Abstract Expressionism. Just click it!
Sometimes you go to a museum, but you don’t see the art, you see the cafeteria; and that’s the shot you make. I really don’t know why I like this picture so much, but I really do like it.
Art is where you find it, dear readers, and, lucky for us all—it is everywhere.
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It's true, photographs are everywhere