Markus Hartel : ‘Subway Motion Study’ (Street Photography)

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‘Subway Motion Study’
Markus Hartel
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“What is street photography? A reflection of every day life – real, unaltered impressions of public places, places that everybody visits every day, the street where you live, the parking lot of your favorite grocery store, the subway. Street photographers document the truth – take candid pictures of things that you don’t notice in your daily grind. This involves attention to detail… attention to scenes, moments that you only recognize subconsciously. The camera is an unobtrusive extension of the eye in any given situation. Oftentimes, street photographers take pictures they feel; and capture the mood in a fraction of a second. He freezes a moment that you will forget in the same amount of time…” M Hartel

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Puddle thinking

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!”

This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.

I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.

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3 Responses to “Markus Hartel : ‘Subway Motion Study’ (Street Photography)”

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1 Rob Slaven
December 22, 2011 at 5:39 pm

Very moving… eMOTIONal… sorry, too many puns. But good stuff.

2 postdigitalblog
December 22, 2011 at 9:55 pm

Very good series

3 Tom McLaughlan
December 23, 2011 at 8:06 am

Brilliant study. I’d love to know how long it took to get the right exposures!!

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