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LIS 550 Street Photography

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This document discusses street photography and its relationship to art and privacy in public spaces. It provides examples of street photography images taken by photographer Puja Parakh. It also profiles the photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia and his series "Heads" featuring surreal glimpses of private moments in public captured with telephoto lenses. It discusses the legal case of Nussenzweig v DiCorcia where the use of someone's image without consent was found to be protected by exceptions for speech and art despite the subject finding it offensive. Various sources on street photography and art/privacy are also cited.

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Street PhotographyArt and Privacy in Public | Meredith Slota LIS 550
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3-D Physical Selves?
Examples of Street Photography[images used with permission, courtesy of Puja Parakh, www.pujaparakh.com]
Examples of Street Photography[images used with permission, courtesy of Puja Parakh, www.pujaparakh.com]
Examples of Street Photography[images used with permission, courtesy of Puja Parakh, www.pujaparakh.com]
Examples of Street Photography[images used with permission, courtesy of Puja Parakh, www.pujaparakh.com]
Examples of Street Photography[images used with permission, courtesy of Puja Parakh, www.pujaparakh.com]
Examples of Street Photography[images used with permission, courtesy of Puja Parakh, www.pujaparakh.com]
Examples of Street Photography[images used with permission, courtesy of Puja Parakh, www.pujaparakh.com]
Examples of Street Photography[images used with permission, courtesy of Puja Parakh, www.pujaparakh.com]
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ART + PRIVACY in PUBLICPhilip-Lorca diCorciaAmerican photographer w/ international acclaimMoMA, The Whitney, etc. H艶温糸壊 2001Off-camera strobe lightingTelephoto lenses = 20 shotSurreal glimpses into private/public moments
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LIS 550 Street Photography
From Nussenzweig v DiCorcia: Clearly, plaintiff finds the use of the photograph bearing his likeness deeply and spiritually offensive. The sincerity of his beliefs is not questioned by defendants or this court [but rather illustrates] the extent to which the constitutional exceptions to privacy will be upheld, notwithstanding that the speech or art may have unintended devastating consequences on the subject, or may even be repugnant. They are [] the price every person must be prepared to pay for in a society in which information and opinion flow freely.
Sourceshttp://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2006/2006_50171.htmhttp://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4094http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpawWn1nXJoStare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."Walker Evans [in a draft text to accompany the hidden camera subway photographs]

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LIS 550 Street Photography

Editor's Notes

  • #3: Most of what weve been talking about in this class has centered around our digital selves and how we curate and protect different kinds of information in the world. But we havent really talked much about our actual physical selves our bodies, our appearances, and our daily lives, and what private and public means here.
  • #4: Our actual bodies navigate between public and private areas of our lives constantly, and we are always adjusting our expectations and behavior accordingly. Bathroom time? Private (well, up to you). The bus? Public. But we arent always perfect judges of what private is that middle ground where we are NOT private but it feels as though we are, so we behave like we are. That intersection is why you see people pick their noses in their cars; NOT private, but they feel private.
  • #5: Street photography is a perfect example of this intersection. Artists find the private moments happening in full view of the public eye, and focus on them, drawing our attention to snippets of the world we would have otherwise missed.
  • #6: Street photography is a perfect example of this intersection. Artists find the private moments happening in full view of the public eye, and focus on them, drawing our attention to snippets of the world we would have otherwise missed.
  • #7: Street photography is a perfect example of this intersection. Artists find the private moments happening in full view of the public eye, and focus on them, drawing our attention to snippets of the world we would have otherwise missed.
  • #8: Street photography is a perfect example of this intersection. Artists find the private moments happening in full view of the public eye, and focus on them, drawing our attention to snippets of the world we would have otherwise missed.
  • #9: Street photography is a perfect example of this intersection. Artists find the private moments happening in full view of the public eye, and focus on them, drawing our attention to snippets of the world we would have otherwise missed.
  • #10: Street photography is a perfect example of this intersection. Artists find the private moments happening in full view of the public eye, and focus on them, drawing our attention to snippets of the world we would have otherwise missed.
  • #11: Street photography is a perfect example of this intersection. Artists find the private moments happening in full view of the public eye, and focus on them, drawing our attention to snippets of the world we would have otherwise missed.
  • #13: Whats most interesting about street photography is this, that private moment captured in a public setting it seems so intimate, and we likely would have walked right by it without someone pointing it out to us.
  • #17: But the one that Im particularly interested in is this fellow.
  • #18: This is Erno Nussenzweig, an Orthodox Hasidic Jew and a member of the Klausenberg Sect, a sect that was almost completely destroyed during the Holocaust. He holds a deep religious conviction that the use of his image for commercial and public purposes violates his religion. In particular he believes that defendants' use of his image violates the second commandment prohibition against graven images. But the lawsuit deals with the use of the image primarily in trade/commerce