How do you create the perfect portrait of a stranger?
Who should you approach?
How should you shoot it? What set-up should you use?
What qualities should you look for?
What should it say to its audience?
In this video Jamie Windsor look at the Street Portraiture of Joel Sternfeld who is photographer who pretty much mastered this secret recipe.
Joel Sternfeld is acutely aware of the limitations, the myths and the manipulation a photographer employs when creating work. And he uses this to create images that throw questions back at the viewer, forcing them to reevaluate their own perceptions of not only photography, but of the world. There is a subtle level of oddity that frequently occurs in his images, and it’s this that Sternfeld uses to challenge our preconceptions.
If you been inspired this video and Joels work you might want to take a look at this further video from Jamie Windsor, looking at techniques for getting over that initial hurdle in all Street Portraiture – approaching a stranger.
