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The STREET PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY techniques of Joel Sternfeld
How do you create the perfect portrait of a stranger? Who should you approach? How should you shoot it? What set-up should you use? What qualities should you look for? What should it say to its audience? If I were to name one person who I feel has come pretty close to perfection with their stranger portraits, it would be Joel Sternfeld.
Joel Sternfeld is acutely aware of the limitations, the myths and the manipulation a photographer employs when creating work. And he uses this to create images that throw questions back at the viewer, forcing them to reevaluate their own perceptions of not only photography, but of the world. There is a subtle level of oddity that frequently occurs in his images, and it’s this that Sternfeld uses to challenge our preconceptions.
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33 responses to “The STREET PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY techniques of Joel Sternfeld”
Bruh, I wanted a pair of Roces so damn bad when I was younger. They were hundreds and hundreds of dollars back in the early 00s
Street photographers are horrible intrusive entitled vermin, I'm surprised so few of the privacy-abusing pricks get beaten up.
They deserve to be blinded.
Thank you.
Very refreshing how you see individual people . After over 2 years of covid, separation and a desperation to comprehend why… it felt as if invidious life was no longer relevant .
Superb video expertly crafted.
Fantastic video but the font is just screaming HOCKEY at me
I love the conclusion in this analysis. Thank you <3
"be appropriate with your depth of field" is actually sound advice but having moved to South Korea, it is impossible to be appropriate with anything. The environmental design is just not conducive to photography 🙁 Colour scheme is just impossible out here.
Is that the theranos ceo in the first photo?
I love that YOU'RE so into it. They don't speak to me. But you do!
Loved the video. Very balanced and crisp. Thankyou.
I love his work but in a lot of instances I wonder if some of the things you attribute to brilliant compositions and color consciousness are merely incidental. Many things I don’t see but I don’t want to enter that which may not actually be there. I can only aspire to his greatness.
excellent video, thank you. And imagine fricking 8×10 inch camera!!! (mind blow emoticon)
I feel I should be paying money just for watching this.
By far my favourite photography channel on YouTube. Well done Jamie, keep doing what you do, because you are a true inspiration for many newbies like me who are really keen to learn. Thanks for your work!!!
Hi Jamie, wonderful video,beautifully produced, what book are these portraits from
Thank you for this! Thoroughly enjoyed your presentation and commentary.
My third comment on your channel today, as I just found it. Your content is truly inspirational, already on my second note-book page written down full with ideas. best.
I've watched this video over a dozen times. His work has inspired me so much, thanks for the great in depth look at his work!
This video is a photojournalist's DREAM! I think you are right on the money with your cmments and images…THANKS!
wow…photography has lot of depth…
This video got md subbed
Jamie I could listen to your voice all day. You defo should do some audio books on photography; or just read me Harry Potter. Love your tone and pace, coupled with the delivery of your epic photography and technical design skills. It’s just a total pleasure to watch anything you produce. I hope post lockdown, you run a workshop in London! I’m game…
Hi Jamie. Just found your channel yesterday. You really are the thinking man's photographer with some truly in depth content. I like the fact your channel is an education in photography and not just run and gun photography. Well done.
Great video, Jamie. This was very insightful.
These photos are priceless he caught these images at a good era back when people weren’t so scared of the camera. Nowadays everything can be shared on social media so people don’t act the same being filmed or photographed
Banal sophistry…
4:00 … She has the same expression as everyone else in the series of photos… i.e. that they're being photographed and told to be still.
Subjects in all photos are centred.
Sorry, this photography is as banal as it seems on the surface… Just snapshots with one quirky thing in the frame… Done on a large format camera so that people can call it art…
Great and thoughtful analysis! Thanks!
Jamie your videos are so inspiring .
Your conversation through your videos is very enlightening and the production value is excellent which takes alot of time.
6:45 I believe the technical term for this is "liminal space photography". A liminal space is a location that is intermediary, we don't make memories there, it's just merely a place between point A and B. Liminal space photography is usually done without a subject, just the location, and it's intended to feel desolate. Sternfeld's photo is an example of a portrait done in a liminal space.
I watch pretty much all of your videos at least 2x. Apart from every masterful video essay that you produce with such a keen and investigative eye for that subject, i then go back and watch again realizing what a tremendous job you do with the edit. Simple things 99 percent of viewers wouldn't even think twice about, i am constantly in awe of your transitions, framing up of everything and how it flows perfectly from one to the next. Then i realize, having said all that, that it is spectacular that you are able to work so fast a to produce a video a month or every two months.
Always excited to see what you have made.
Why am I crying?