MPS 508 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: William Eggleston, Scott Schuman, Stephen Shore
17 May 2016
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Louis-jacques-mand daguerre (french, 1787-1851) andwilliam henry fox talbot (british, 1800-1877) Street photos were an interest for early photographers because they needed natural light fl neur |fla n , french flan |noun (pl. saunters around observing society. fl neurs pronunc. same) someone who. The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the cityas a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseurof empathy, the fl neur finds the world picturesque. The fl neur is not attracted to the city"s official realities but to its dark seamy corners, its neglected populations an unofficial reality behind the fa ade of bourgeois life that the photographer apprehends, as a detective apprehends a criminal. One of the first photographers to photograph street life in london. Alfred stieglitz (american, 1864-1946) early street photography is average later one is more artistic advocated for photography as an artform.
