New York - attempts at "street photography"

Heck · Nov 15, 2007

Lol your husban must have been freaking out. Great shots by a brave sole!

kalmkidd · Nov 15, 2007

there all amazing.. nice work like usual. these pictures are deep and there body language make them deeper. thanks for re-sharing lol

kalmkidd · Nov 15, 2007

bumping corrina and her HOT SHOTS lol

spiffybeth · Nov 16, 2007

those are great shots!

how come there are only black people and no other races? chance?

kalmkidd · Nov 16, 2007

spiffybeth said:
those are great shots!

how come there are only black people and no other races? chance?

because many places in ny are still racial sectioned. exspecially brooklyn and the bronx. im from nyc myself and i personally live in a black neighborhood well im italian and get fights,greef, and b/s all the time.

LaFoto · Nov 16, 2007

From my point of view, as a German tourist to the city, it was a matter of coincidence only. The story is that we had missed the one bus to JFK Airport by a hair's bredth and had to park ourselves at that bus stop for some 20 minutes waiting for the next to come. And I simply made the best out of the opportunity and place. I did not move around at all (as in taking many steps to go here or there), only did I point the camera either up the road in that direction or the other. And I assume that, yes, the majority of people who live there and go about their daily lives are black. It is so ...

anuragbhateja · Nov 16, 2007

No.3 Speechless. Great work.

santiserv · Nov 17, 2007

wow! Corinna... your work is awesome! I loved the pic 6... everyone is talking about the number 7... but I see only 6

maybe my browser didn't load everything... for me the number 6 is the gang... great shot

LaFoto · Nov 17, 2007

Santiserv ... when I "revived" this thread for "kalmkidd" (it was first posted in April 2006, and then put back up the day before yesterday), I had to replace the photos, i.e. put them back onto my photo server's site, and from memory, and on my own CD I only found these six that today, one and a half years later, I deemed worthy enough to show up again. So the numbers the EARLY commenters refer to no longer correspond with the numbers that YOU see NOW. There used to be 8 photos, now there are only 6. So nothing wrong with your server.

And I am glad you like these photos. I wish I had a further chance to take photos of the kind, but here I am, stuck in my little place in the middle of nowhere, far, far from street scenes such as these... ah well...

spiffybeth · Nov 17, 2007

LaFoto said:
From my point of view, as a German tourist to the city, it was a matter of coincidence only. The story is that we had missed the one bus to JFK Airport by a hair's bredth and had to park ourselves at that bus stop for some 20 minutes waiting for the next to come. And I simply made the best out of the opportunity and place. I did not move around at all (as in taking many steps to go here or there), only did I point the camera either up the road in that direction or the other. And I assume that, yes, the majority of people who live there and go about their daily lives are black. It is so ...

oh. maybe i should ask where in nyc these were taken?

Joey28 · Nov 24, 2007

I thought it was illegal to take photos of people that didn't allow it... :lol:

But I like how you chouse black and white the contrast in all of them is awsome. I like the last one of the gangsters

SommarShade · Nov 24, 2007

Im really happy to see you move into a new direction and try something you used to be so shy about !!!! thats cool.

very interesting shots. Your focus, or slight blur will dwindle the more you shoot on the street. !! Very nice .

petey · Nov 24, 2007

beauty

#2 is my fave

LaFoto · Nov 25, 2007

Spiffybeth: we were at the end of Line 3 "New Lots Ave" in Queens, from where we had to wait for the Airport Bus to come and take us to JFK Airport (see here: http://olinloa.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/new-york-big-subway.gif ). We had not wanted to lug around our bags too much, so took the 3 from 86 Ave right through.

And Joey: My husband did not like me to take photos of the gangsters, at all. He was appalled, and very frightened they might come round the bus stop shelter any time now to rob me of my gear or some such thing. Never happened.