What I love about these video portraits of these photographers, is none of them ever talk about specs, which lens you need or to always stick to the rule of thirds etc. Photography these days is full of gear and spec obsessed old men in bad trousers. Bring back the passion for making art, rather than capturing the sharpest lifeless image.
I was a member of a Leica forum when one of the moderators told me I needed to tell everyone which lens and film I used for every post. I said all the greats didn’t tell you what film they used, and every detail about their gear.
@@nickfanzo My advice would be to stay away from Leica forums, groups and the like. They're great cameras but they have a lot of pretentious users who buy a Leica more for the sake of saying they own a Leica rather than actually making good pictures with it. Just shoot for yourself. Best thing I ever did was to remove myself from groups and just do what feels right/good to me. All the best.
This is my favorite type of photography. I really miss these type of photographers. Today, we can be so consumed with Lightroom/photoshop/presets. Whatever happen to authentic storytelling through images.
things change like that. there’s always a good to be seen in something. whether your prefer it or not, somebody out there sees what they like. perhaps the photographers felt like they wanted to move on. even art can become cumbersome.
Interesting he brings up how color makes it close to reality. Then there other photographers who prefer abstraction. Just like a painter, no hard rules in photography.
makes me think of the time period he was living in too. he would have grown up seeing alot of black and white and would have seen alot more "reality" and "abstract" in black and white, just like nowdays we would see more color and black and white is the "new" thing
1:38 makes me want to go back in time, how cool the people and the streets looked back then, raw style. Thanks to artists like him for giving us a look at it today
I really enjoy listening to Joel Meyerowitz talking about photography because he is so passionate about it and never boring in anything I've watched with him in it.
im always amazed by people who are way way ahead of their time, its just awesome... this guy out here making a vlog style video in the 80's, so inspiring.
I'm writing my bacchelor thesis about street photography. I hear for Meyerowitz before, but I have never explored anything about him. watching this documentary, he seems really inspiring.
6 minutes I will treasure his street Photography method was beautiful just keeping back and not having to jump into peoples faces, having respect for the art and not pulling it down to a gutter level .
When you realize, almost all of these photographers in these series were once used Leica M4 (Meyerowitz, Mark Cohen, Winogrand). Even Mark Cohen is still using the same camera to the recent days.
I’ve just purchased some slide film and want to shoot some street photography. I’ve been influenced by Joel and many others, but there’s something I’m confused about. What setting does he use? I’m pretty sure the slide film he used was a slow speed film, so surely he would have to be shooting at either a slow shutter speed/small aperture or a faster shutter speed with a larger aperture? Neither one should work for quick, fast action street photography, right?
There are rules. It is about mastering them and learning how to bend them to achieve your image. He only photographed fairly still areas with the slide film. Therefore, yes he did most likely use a slow shutter. Street photography has different requirements.
Joel most probably used ISO 400 slide film (ektachrome) with setting of f8 1/1000s in sunny day, positioning himself behind the sunlight / reflected light to able to use fast shutter speed(s) and freeze the motion. Nowadays ISO 400 slide film is hard to come by, so you need all the light available if using film, but there are ISO 400 film still available in color negative form. Slide film is quite unforgiving what comes to contrast, but that probably also gave Joel´s images "the looks"
@@KolevProductions On the contrary, Joel used fast shutter speeds 1/1000 with aperture around f8. Way back then Kodak offered much more ASA varietes for slide films compared to today´s selection.
You need a lot of light. Under enough light, you can shoot with a shutter speed of 1/1000 at 100 ISO with small apertures just fine. Also, slide films handle underexposure better than reversal films. You'll get away with a stop underexposure(which means a faster shutter speed). Besides, if you're shooting people just walking around the street 1/100 of a sec is adequate. I do a lot of run and gun and there has been times where I go down as slow as 1/30 and still manage to freeze my subjects.
This kind of street photography is simply not possible anymore in most industrialized countries. It has been outlawed during the past two decades. You still can do it if you wish to, of course, but with two problems: people will scold you for doing this and you can't publish your work.
Depends greatly on where you are and how you're publishing it. If I'm not mistaken, in the US: as long as you're on public property and you're not publishing it for commercial purposes, you can shoot.
@@instantcharlie1225 I don't know how it is in the US, but in Europe everyone can demand to not be photographed and you have to obey as a photographer, and it is forbidden to publish a picture of a person without being able to present a written statement of consent, in case it is requested (both do not apply if it is a person of public interest). In most Third World countries there are no rules at all about this, as far as I know.
What I love about these video portraits of these photographers, is none of them ever talk about specs, which lens you need or to always stick to the rule of thirds etc.
Photography these days is full of gear and spec obsessed old men in bad trousers.
Bring back the passion for making art, rather than capturing the sharpest lifeless image.
yes!!
So true!
I was a member of a Leica forum when one of the moderators told me I needed to tell everyone which lens and film I used for every post. I said all the greats didn’t tell you what film they used, and every detail about their gear.
@@nickfanzo My advice would be to stay away from Leica forums, groups and the like. They're great cameras but they have a lot of pretentious users who buy a Leica more for the sake of saying they own a Leica rather than actually making good pictures with it. Just shoot for yourself. Best thing I ever did was to remove myself from groups and just do what feels right/good to me. All the best.
@@oliverroberts1076 good advice. All they seem to care about is the camera and the equipment , not the images
This is my favorite type of photography. I really miss these type of photographers. Today, we can be so consumed with Lightroom/photoshop/presets. Whatever happen to authentic storytelling through images.
joe greer
i love raw, i love not filtering what my eyes saw and what lens caught. a lot of respect for those who still prefer that.
Photographing in medium and big formats like he does brings another perspective to photography!! It's amazing
things change like that. there’s always a good to be seen in something. whether your prefer it or not, somebody out there sees what they like. perhaps the photographers felt like they wanted to move on. even art can become cumbersome.
I also appreciate film photography but I also appreciate digital photography. Times change, now you can do both.
Really inspiring idea... "A picture that you can enter into anywhere in the frame". It gives a new freshness to street photography ideas... I love it.
It's so freeing to think beyond the monolithic idea of the single "subject." Images can work in different ways.
his enthusiasm is unreal, i love the way he talks with so much passion.
Interesting he brings up how color makes it close to reality. Then there other photographers who prefer abstraction. Just like a painter, no hard rules in photography.
makes me think of the time period he was living in too. he would have grown up seeing alot of black and white and would have seen alot more "reality" and "abstract" in black and white, just like nowdays we would see more color and black and white is the "new" thing
rodchenko is the perfect example of this imo
No hard rules! Exactly. Cropping, Photoshop, etc. Do what you love.
2:34 …..and 20 years after that, Joel is doing interviews on TH-cam. Genuinely incredible.
1:38 makes me want to go back in time, how cool the people and the streets looked back then, raw style. Thanks to artists like him for giving us a look at it today
Yeah. Looks like 1980-82, somewhere in that frame. Possibly 83,84 or 85
@@EphemeralProductions spring 82
I really enjoy listening to Joel Meyerowitz talking about photography because he is so passionate about it and never boring in anything I've watched with him in it.
remember when people used to walk around close to each other like this?
im always amazed by people who are way way ahead of their time, its just awesome... this guy out here making a vlog style video in the 80's, so inspiring.
It’s called a documentary.
@@damonlawson9447 Haha, I swear, the latest generation believes everything was invented in their lifetime
this man was doing vlogs before vlogs were a thing
I'm writing my bacchelor thesis about street photography. I hear for Meyerowitz before, but I have never explored anything about him. watching this documentary, he seems really inspiring.
Where can we find your thesis? ?
Joel Meyerowitz master class brought me here. He still has that enthusiasm
Just how many truths can one man speak about his passion - very inspiring to listen to Mr Meyerowitz.
"this is how it feels to be alive in new york city."
I'm going to invest 20 years of my life
6 minutes I will treasure his street Photography method was beautiful just keeping back and not having to jump into peoples faces, having respect for the art and not pulling it down to a gutter level .
Just got this video/account recommended. Really enjoying everything. Thanks so much
Shooting street in New York is almost like cheating. Such a vibrant place to photograph it seems.
while there's plenty to photograph, it's incredibly difficult to be able to direct your eye to one thing amidst all the chaos.
@@nhogp but amidst the chaos, theres the opportunity to capture the beauty in a lot of them
Great video
Inspiring
gut gemacht.
Thank you so much for posting these here in English.
he speaks so beautifully
Masterful image maker, very inspiring stuff.
What a wonderfull man to listen too
4:48 One of the things I learnt on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off it.
5:13 this is exactly the point of art
I remember he took a shot at John Cale and Lou Reed walking on the street. A beautiful one indeed.
Thank you for this upload
his shots in cape cod are stunning
glad to see somethings never changes. Fire brigade sound interrupting everything in city even now in 2024 with same intensity as in 1982
Photography is fun and exciting
I dont know him before. His work looks pretty awesome.
i have no idea why but im glad I saw this
Good old New York. We loved our artists and weirdos ❤️ we have the best perspective on life
How did he finance the 20 years of streetshooting and two months at Cape Cod??
Very good!
He moves like a claymation character.
He do be smooth
great!
Very inspiring ! thanks for sharing !
When you realize, almost all of these photographers in these series were once used Leica M4 (Meyerowitz, Mark Cohen, Winogrand). Even Mark Cohen is still using the same camera to the recent days.
High value content
best advice ever
6:01 "olha pra câmera, não olha pra cara da gente não"
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK eu amei
lol he just blinded that lady at 6:20 with that flash.
Mark Cohen is like that.
what I like is the composition of these photos. and the choice of color is so difficult.
I would like to go back to that historical period; there was no internet, no PS, no dslr, only analogphotography.
And everyone was looking forward and not down at a phone. There are no more faces. Just foreheads and hairlines.
What kind of camera was this likely filmed on? Colours look gorgeous
yes probably a bolex paillard or something that works with 16mm film
4:46 looks like Edward Hopper paintings
i want this.
wow !! Cool !
It's interesting to see how photographers have different values
Henri Cartier-Bresson once said that to him, color is a distraction.
Highly recommended DVD (no affiliation)
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He has an instagram!
I’ve just purchased some slide film and want to shoot some street photography. I’ve been influenced by Joel and many others, but there’s something I’m confused about. What setting does he use? I’m pretty sure the slide film he used was a slow speed film, so surely he would have to be shooting at either a slow shutter speed/small aperture or a faster shutter speed with a larger aperture? Neither one should work for quick, fast action street photography, right?
There are rules. It is about mastering them and learning how to bend them to achieve your image. He only photographed fairly still areas with the slide film. Therefore, yes he did most likely use a slow shutter. Street photography has different requirements.
Joel most probably used ISO 400 slide film (ektachrome) with setting of f8 1/1000s in sunny day, positioning himself behind the sunlight / reflected light to able to use fast shutter speed(s) and freeze the motion. Nowadays ISO 400 slide film is hard to come by, so you need all the light available if using film, but there are ISO 400 film still available in color negative form. Slide film is quite unforgiving what comes to contrast, but that probably also gave Joel´s images "the looks"
@@KolevProductions On the contrary, Joel used fast shutter speeds 1/1000 with aperture around f8. Way back then Kodak offered much more ASA varietes for slide films compared to today´s selection.
You need a lot of light. Under enough light, you can shoot with a shutter speed of 1/1000 at 100 ISO with small apertures just fine.
Also, slide films handle underexposure better than reversal films. You'll get away with a stop underexposure(which means a faster shutter speed). Besides, if you're shooting people just walking around the street 1/100 of a sec is adequate. I do a lot of run and gun and there has been times where I go down as slow as 1/30 and still manage to freeze my subjects.
As brasileiras no final 🧡🥰
Where i can see the full documental??
Order it from michaelengler.de
Highly recommended !
thanks
"Things are good enough as they are, there is no reason to tamper with them"
Keanu Reeves at 2:32 in the back
Omg
What camera was this recorded with?
Bolex
NYC changed nothing lol. This is just wonderful!
What’s the ratio of this video?
4:3
Filmed before the advent of super 16 or 36.
the video itself is meyerwitzian
nice
I just love your channel. =D
what a wonderfull man
One day I will be as good as them
the day is today, how does it feel now
Present. Ahead his time.
can anyone tell me what kinda camera did he use？plzz🤍
Leica
Does anyone have an idea what kind of camera he used?
Leica
This kind of street photography is simply not possible anymore in most industrialized countries. It has been outlawed during the past two decades. You still can do it if you wish to, of course, but with two problems: people will scold you for doing this and you can't publish your work.
Depends greatly on where you are and how you're publishing it. If I'm not mistaken, in the US: as long as you're on public property and you're not publishing it for commercial purposes, you can shoot.
@@instantcharlie1225 I don't know how it is in the US, but in Europe everyone can demand to not be photographed and you have to obey as a photographer, and it is forbidden to publish a picture of a person without being able to present a written statement of consent, in case it is requested (both do not apply if it is a person of public interest). In most Third World countries there are no rules at all about this, as far as I know.
Perfectly legal here in the US. On public property you can photograph as you like.
nussenzweig vs dicorcia
Perfectly legal in the UK too.
Meyerowitz 😍
Why does everything that happens in New York just look exponentially cooler? It makes me feel terribly dissatisfied.
I didn’t know winogrand was one of his idols but duh of course.
💗
Gret bid regards
No one use light meter...
Street photo !?
Hopefully photography and graffiti will stop suicidal thoughts
Any one else spot kianu reeves in the background
what camera was he using?
in Italia se fotografi le persone senza consenso e liberatoria ti fanno causa per la privacy.
Drain gang
wait what
@@eyerolling wait
@@scum1979 what
@@eyerolling wait what ??
@@scum1979 eternal confusion
Emergency vehicles pissing people off since forever.
he tackled the fuck outta her
tiene un aire a horacio rodriguez larreta, no? xD
no
My dream is to be a homeless in New York.
Great vid but we all live in the shadow of eggleston
why this guys reminds me of jordan peterson? maybe the way he talks, idk
This is called street photography.
Cool, no mask. So free.
Jordan Peterson? The way he talks haha
no better way to inflate one's ego....give someone a camera and some success as a photographer.
what camera was he using?
Leica