Track B – (The Art of Street Photography) – The Art of Composition, and the Composition of Art. Part 2.

Originally posted on Raw, Naked Art:
The Real Versus the Almost Real ? In our development of this series me and Bill have discussed at great length what makes Street Photography an art form, it is in fact what inspired the series to begin with. We drew the conclusion then, that in order to appreciate…

Gumballs!

I’m a bit rattled this morning, having had not very much sleep. My daughter had gone into meltdown when she realised that non-school uniform day was tomorrow, not today. So I was awoken from my dream-filled slumber by my phone buzzing urgently, the familiar buzz ascribed to one person alone in my contacts list, and […]

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The Narcissist and I – Conversations with an Anarchist. (Snapshot Stories)

“To define me is to disrespect me, to manipulate me is to misdirect me. To deny me, is an insurrection. That is not love.”   “To call you an anarchist is perhaps the correct term, although convention stipulates that you are very much an Archist. You do everything by the bloody book, you are courteous, […]

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Friday-itis.

Life can be a stupidly peculiar old thing. It never ceases to surprise me. The assholes of the world are somehow absolved from time to time by a never ending streak of creativity that cracks at the air like a bull-whip when you least expect it, sending you either teetering on the brink of some […]

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Track B (The Art of Street Photography) – The Art of Composition, and the Composition of Art. Part 1

Originally posted on Raw, Naked Art:
? An Introduction to Vivian Maier, and the Phenomenon of the Artist-Photographer. ? Vivian Maier, born in New York in 1926, a nanny originally of French and Austrian heritage, was, is, in mine and Bill’s opinion possibly the best street photographer in the history of street photography. She has…