Street photography

The Museum of London's survey of street photography is on till September 4th. You can see a selection of images from the exhibition here. I found it rather overwhelming and strangely uninteresting, and tried to figure out why. Perhaps it was the effort of looking - so much happening in each photo, plus the matching of the site with how it looks now, as seen in the photo, as seen in one's memory. It's hard to look hard for long enough to do everything justice.

The older photos, though they were compositions, had a cluttered feel ... unedited, messy ... but hey, life's like that! We were looking at history first, art second.

Or perhaps it was simply that all the older photos were monochrome (as you'd expect).

Having the soundtrack of the video playing and replaying in the background got tiresome, however interesting it was to watch it. (Why do all exhibitions have so much NOISE nowadays!)

Seeing these two pix cheered me up, though -

I was too much under a cloud myself to write down the photographer of the umbrella-and-cloud (apologies!) but have discovered that Paul Stuart's photo has been used on the cover of an accompanying book, "Street Photography Now" -
The book of the show has a 1930s photo by Wolf Suchitsky on the cover -