Street Photography vs Landscape Photography
The photos you see here have nothing to do with Orthodox landscape photography, meditated, directly in the place, perhaps taken with a tripod. These photographs you see were all taken on the return trip from Oaxaca, and therefore taken from the window as the bus sped by on the highway. It has more in common with the speed of execution and the instinct of street photography than with the classic landscape photography. In fact I don’t like that landscape photos super photoshopped.
To offer a little bit of context of my approach and also the aesthetics, I want to share a text I have originally written and published on my Italian blog FOTOREPORTANDO:
Some photographers were involved in the 1989 Transmancha photographic mission, including Josef Koudelka. In notebook number 6, his work shows, like the other photographers involved in the project, an aptitude for returning numerous times to well-defined places.
In Koudelka's case the return to the same dune becomes revealing to document different aspects of the same subject, and like a good landscape photographer (few know this side of Koudelka) in search of the best light. Through the use of the panoramic format, the Czech tradition of photographic landscape is renewed, legacy of J. Saudek. Through the sequence the representation of the journey is shown.
The revealing heart in this case is represented by the narrative-aesthetic approach that implies a dynamism of the photographer, of the traveler, as opposed to the apparent stillness of the photographed landscape. Koudelka through his returns to photograph the dune with new approaches and a renewed eye, in fact, documents a movement that is created by the various returns.
It is particularly interesting to analyze the photographer as a walker, as a traveler in which the experience of returning to photograph proposes new dimensions, effectively creating an absolutely personalistic dimensionality, in which the object-subject becomes a heavy dichotomy for the images created.
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On a purely aesthetic level I consider so much photography important that I have learned to metabolize and love over the years. Certain Japanese photography and also a lot of documentary film seen in the Mexican magazine CUARTOSCURO.
The provocation of the title identifies my idea of photography and that makes me love certain photography and completely ignore another type of photography. In landscape photography there are many photographers anchored to HDR and a certain academic setting who are a deadly bore.
So here is my idea of landscape.
