Everyone has a perception of street photography, this is up to the Photographer behind the camera to choose what the viewer will see and perceive in the image.
The Following Images are my view on street photography…
Henery Chalfant is an American photographer and videographer specialising in street photography with trains that have been painted over by graffiti artists. His primary research in life is subway art as he wrote multiple books in this field.
His first book titled subway art published in 1984 is his book that
“presenting stunning photographic documentation of the burgeoning movement in New York” – Chalfant 1984 cover of Subway Art.
The following picture can be seen as a beauty but also the damage these street Artists have on the company running the trains.
This image has an image in an image as the graffiti its self is an image in the image the Chafalt is portraying. The viewer can appreciate the time that it took the artist to layer all that paint to finish with that masterpiece. The style the image was taken is the standard Henery Chafant stuck to all these years which seems to have the most impact on the viewer, a well-composed image with the symmetry of the train being present in the picture.
The Creative value of this image is that the photographer is in the right spot at the right time of day to snap the moment in time the graffiti will be stuck in his vision of the scene.
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