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Paul McDonough (photographer)
Paul A. McDonough (born 1941) is an American Street photography, street photographer, living in New York City. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in 1981 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Publications Books of work by McDonough *''New York Photographs 1968–1978''. New York: Umbrage, 2010. . With an essay by Susan Kismaric and a transcript of an interview with McDonough by Albert Mobilio. *''Sight Seeing''. New York: Sasha Wolf Gallery, 2014. *''Headed West''. West Midlands, UK: Stanley/Barker, 2021. . Awards *1981: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Collections McDonough's work is held in the following permanent collection: *Museum of Modern Art, New York: 6 prints (as of July 2021) References External links"Sweltering sidewalks: catching the heat in 1970s America – in pictures" at ''The Guardian'' Street photographers 20th-century American photographers People from Portsmouth, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Photography
Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and candid photography, it is usually subtle with most street photography being candid in nature and some candid photography being classifiable as street photography. Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment. Though people usually feature directly, street photography might be absent of people and can be of an object or environment where the image projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic.Colin Westerbeck. ''Bystander: A History of Street Photography''. 1st ed. Little, Brown and Company, 1994. The street photographer can be seen as an extension of the '' flâneur'', an observer of the streets (who was often a writer or artist). Framing and timing can be key aspects of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
