How Jack Kerouac’s 30 cool tips can work for your Street Photography

By undermining the academic approach to writing, Jack Kerouac was a writer able to reinvent literature. Let’s see how to apply these to our Street Photography. Enjoy this sort of dialogue.

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy

I am used to have notebooks where I write my thoughts about the photography experience. Thanks to this habit I was able to write several books on photography.

Try never get drunk outside your own house

Yeah, good advice. Not always is possible anyway. I photographed also drunk of course and I was surprised by the results.

Be in love with your life

This is a very good advice. If you are good with yourself this will have a positive effect on your work. And photos will be better.

Something that you feel will find its own form

It emerges. All the time. This is meant in a good and a bad way, of course.

Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind

Best photos are prompted by madness

Blow as deep as you want to blow

Photography should dig into ourselves and into others. Authoritative perception of an uncontrolled photographer.

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind

Nobody is going to say me how to photograph and what to photograph. I do my own thing.

The unspeakable visions of the individual

Street photography is a great opportunity to say the unsaid. And wipe your ass with stupid homework.

No time for poetry but exactly what is

Reality as it is. Hard as a punch in the face. Yet even that can be poetry

Visionary tics shivering in the chest

Instinct guides me even if it's crazy: the photograph that comes out is certainly not what you expect.

In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you

Watch out guys, this can lead to trouble. Do it, but take responsibility for it. And don't tell me I didn't warn you.

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition

Which would then be a fuck the rules and rewrite them every time for yourself.

Like Proust be an old teahead of time

Look at a distance of several meters. Preview the scene. Be ready to anticipate. Precursor of time, fucker of the moment.

Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog

Meditation flows into creation. Which is the thing that most fascinates me about the whole affair with photography.

The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye

Jack, are you talking about the eye contact? It doesn't matter, I read it this way.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself

I always do it. That kid who remains an essential part of the creative process.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea

I dive into the visual equation, swim across the frame.

Accept loss forever

Everything I don't have no longer exists.

Believe in the holy contour of life

Which is all that matters in my photography.

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind

Sometimes I draw photos that exist only in my mind.

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better

The mind can chain, you have the scene in front of you and only that rules.

Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in your morning

And remember to charge the batteries.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

Someone said it's not important to know the history of photography. But that guy is stupid.

Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures of it

Photography is a language and so you have to make yourself understood.

Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form

The screenplay, if you allow, I'll write it. In America and everywhere.

In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness

I am a portrait and concerned photographer.

Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better

Bodies cut out, scenes moved and out of focus. I caress the sanctity of my rapid gait on the dirty asphalt.

You're a Genius all the time

I am writing a solemn, lopsided and limping work that has no equal. Let's make some fucking art!

Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

I'm here in hell to get sponsored by some saint in the mood for fun.