Street Photography

A week ago, with my Photography class, we took a field trip to do some "street shots" since we've been looking at some street photographers. We met up at the Louvre and then went in pairs and just took pictures for two hours. I didn't feel like asking anyone if I could take a shot of them, I honestly hate that, so I looked at other things around.

Here's some classic, typical (postcard cliché) Parisian 'photographie de rue'.. Oh! The everyday Parisian, the city characters the photographer finds in hidden corners, those candid shots of that special moment...












Ah well, going back to my painful attempt to get the candid, documentary style shots, I just really have troubles with the concept of street photography, I appreciate a lot more other types of photographic work...

I specially don't like the idea of having a couple of hours to produce 'street photography', I enjoy more taking pictures for classes when there's time to conceptualize the work beforehand so you bring it to class to expose an idea and discuss it (rather than, oh I found a couple kissing in a bench, isn't that cute).

But again, in Sciences Po photo classes are merely electives so the future presidents can feel a little artsy from time to time, nobody takes them seriously. I'm thinking next week I'll present to the class a subtle critique, my idea of street photography, in a very literal sense:










And these are just fun, one because these people seem like they're making a Fascist salute (I don't know why that's fun, but... it is), and then these others just to show how nice it can be though were in complete winter weather now.