Sunday 24 July 2011

London Street Photography - a maze of images


Since the nineteen-century street photographs are at the heart of our understanding of the contemporary public space, as a diverse and dynamic humanly-build maze. Images characterised by «element of chance», by the multiplicity of subjects produce as a computer program seen on a television screen or any other display screen. It is when the shutter caught «a fortunate encounter, a fleeting expression, a momentary juxtaposition, capturing and ever-changing city.» Despite of the image’s democratisation and the growing digitalisation of visual culture, it has become, increasingly, more difficult to photograph the pubic space; for instance, banks, or, just, children playing in the streets. First because human law legally protects their image; and, second, it has also become even more difficult to find kids playing in the public space, since they tend to stay more constrained to their private space, within the walls of an electronically impulse video game. Though, this continuous area, which is free, available, contains small sets of points having some specified structure.

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