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13355560885_b23c07462f_b.jpgChanging Heads by Paul Crespel, on Flickr

15365290346_867ea6966a_b.jpgCuria Curiosa by Paul Crespel, on Flickr

15597057936_888065b9b0_b.jpgInnsbruck Curiosity by Paul Crespel, on Flickr

15967650492_faecb71e55_b.jpgCuriosity by Paul Crespel, on Flickr

17586348992_fd0bd758c4_b.jpgShaken, not stirredi by Paul Crespel, on Flickr

18052773995_14ba18b944_b.jpgil Duce by Paul Crespel, on Flickr

18223571241_42fa0b1737_b.jpgWindow Dressing by Paul Crespel, on Flickr

20279980280_d017eb6ae9_b.jpgA hard seat by Paul Crespel, on Flickr

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This one always makes me laugh - just picturing the frustration and desperation of trying to dispose of this chair to leave it like this.

 

"Soho Trash"

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It seems to me that Street Photography is moving slowly but surely towards being a collection of joke shots. Lucky captures of peculiar happenings seem to win the awards. But street photography in it's true pure form came about as a way to document everyday life on the street. As Bruce Gilden puts it, it's a street photograph if you can 'smell the street'. With a lot of the photos I'm seeing, labelled as street photography, this is clearly not the case. They are good pictures of odd happenings, but I'm concerned that this style of photography is heading towards and being rewarded for producing gimmicks.
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Hello Sophie :)

 

This is just one forum of many, covering just one, tiny aspect of the truly vast subject of street photography.

 

Have you looked at the other forums here, such as architecture, people at windows, kids & teenagers, street markets, loneliness / solitude, and shop windows?

 

Even with those other categories you are seeing just a tiny selection of street photography. 

 

Forums, by their nature, tend to "categorise" different subjects, and it's very easy to judge an overall subject by seeing just one, tiny part of it.

 

The "gimmicks" you refer to are real occurrences, they were not posed.

 

If you look at any of the books of photographs by Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Gianni Berengo-Gardin, and many, many others, you will see that they were photographing those "gimmicks" 50 or 60 years ago, and those gentlemen were the pioneers of street photography.  Doisneau and Erwitt, in particular, show amazing senses of humour and irony in the work they produced from the 1950s onwards.

 

Street photography is not "heading" anywhere... it's still doing exactly what it did since Henri Cartier-Bresson started back in the 1930s, almost one hundred years ago, as you will easily see if you visit any exhibition of street photographs taken in any of the last 8 decades :)

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It seems to me that Street Photography is moving slowly but surely towards being a collection of joke shots. Lucky captures of peculiar happenings seem to win the awards. But street photography in it's true pure form came about as a way to document everyday life on the street. As Bruce Gilden puts it, it's a street photograph if you can 'smell the street'. With a lot of the photos I'm seeing, labelled as street photography, this is clearly not the case. They are good pictures of odd happenings, but I'm concerned that this style of photography is heading towards and being rewarded for producing gimmicks.

 

I think you should lighten up a bit.  Loosen the camera strap from around your neck and breath.  I actually enjoyed these humorous images though I DESPISE street photography and the entire gender it encompasses.  Even a jerk like me can like something.   :)

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Headless Wave in Istanbul

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A little sea breeze on the ferry in Istanbul

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Sun tanning in Cinarcik, Turkey

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