Yeah I bought a big flashy camera and yeah I was expecting amazing photos to start whizzing out the Snappy Snap printers. Instead I ended up with thousands of the same average photos I was taking before but now I'm able to blow them up to the size of a billboard....result.
I'm forever flicking through photo books in awe and trawling the tinternet looking for my next coffee table coaster when I stumbled across a fellow blogger who's written a nice piece about the photographers that managed to capture the deep and dark life that lived below NY in the subways. The blog highlights a photographer called Bruce Davidson who turns out to be a total geezer! Wandering the streets of Oak Park, Illinos aged 10, Bruce was developing photos in his Mum's basement before my first memory! He went on to hone his future trade with a local photographer and his talents didn't go unnoticed when being drafted into the US army which lead to him secure a full time job at his postings paper. Now a full time member of the illustrious international photographic cooperative, Magnum Photos.
I would suggest buying any of his many books but a must is his works on the NY subway titled, Subway. I've added a few of my favourites below. Choo choo
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