'The Stairs' - Limited Edition of 15 Photograph

When I bought my first camera in 1968 in Manhattan and the first role contained a 'keeper' street photo, I was hooked. I found my calling from the first ten frames of my first roll of film and have been attracted to the style now called 'street' but then called 'documentary; or some other style but which was grist to the various weeklies which featured often a page of good to great photos. That was they hey dey of the photo periodicals n the US, France and elsewhere. TV wiped out much of that market. I took this shot from a pedestrian walkway and bridge looking down on steps at what then was the San Francisco Public Library downtown branch. It now is converted to a museum of some sort but remains.intact I understand in SF's municipal center. This photo features great lines and with them, parallelism plus a break in the overall design by the strategically caught man at lower right step just stepping out of the frame. This is a case of balance and unbalance -- harmony created from the combination of harmony and its strategic but artful disruption. Some of my photos maintain this or a similar style;even today;p it is timeless in my view and quite attractive in my opinion. . I chose to shoot 'street' because I admired he photos I grew up with in the weekly periodicals, and they formed my opinion of what I hoped I could take if I bought a camera. When I did buy that first camera I almost immediately began taking good to sometimes great photos far advanced for a first time user but look back at such an 'old style' or just this old photo from San Francisco in 1969 as an attempt to match or exceed the world's finest still photographers -- my unspoken goal. I cut my teeth on in those weekly photo pictorials, including 'Life' which helped inform my personal idea of what a photo I saw in my mind's eye would look like. This is one such photo, just as simple as a photo might be, yet which makes use of several composition devices. It has no meaning' per se, just its form and composition. I am informed Henri Cartier-Bresson had seen this photo before agreeing to meet with me in1969, all arranged by a colleague and old HCB friend and 'China hand' a long time Associated Press writer where I was being hired a at age 22-23 as a staff photographer. This was one of several photos I now remember the colleague said he showed HCB as part of he photos that I had pulled from my meager group of printed photos for management and I had no 'real'; 'portfolio'. John Crosley

Photography:Paper on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:15

Size:31 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in

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