New York City: Street Affairs

I admire Joel Meyerowitz for his thought process, and I treasure some of his quotes.

“I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it’s got lots of accounting going on in it – stones and buildings and trees and air – but that’s not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”

This is what Joel Meyerowitz said, and I couldn’t agree more with this.

As I am spending some quality time with photography, and refining my thought process, this is the same realization I am getting from inside. I believe that memorable photographs have three dimensions, and I do prefer to say the third dimension as feelings, energy, discovery (what Joel pointed out in his own words), or whatever emotional aspect you can think of which touches heart, embraces soul, and make a persistent impression in life.

Third Dimension and a perspective

So, If the third dimension is missing, does not matter how much colorful it is, or how beautifully it has been composed, the image will never stand in viewers mind for a long time. I have put together my views here more elaborately.

Here are a few street shots from New York City where I have tried to fill the frame with love and affection.

Again, in Joel’s own words –

“We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.”

Please share your thoughts, realizations, and experiences you have on photographs that impact you in some way. I know it changes with time and maturity as we grow. But still, this is important, because if we can’t define, visualize, how could we possibly create it?

Thanks you.