Cinematic street photography
- Noemi Filetti
- 8 mar 2018
- Tempo di lettura: 2 min
As I said in one of my previous posts, I have noticed that several of my shots have a kind of "movie feel" and I am considering to explore this style for my street photography module.
There are several of my favourite practitioners who have taken "cinematic pictures" in the street, some of them staging the scene and other shooting actual candid shots. However, I consider all of them highly inspiring for my work and I wanted to create a collection of these pictures in order to analyse them more carefully and trying to understand what makes them looking "cinematic".
Alex Prager
“I can see drama in everything, the comedy and the tragedy, even where there is none”
Obsessed with street photography, he creates staged photographs that embrace the cinematic elements of the medium.
"Everything I do is meticulously planned out and staged"
Cristina De Middel
One of my biggest inspiration ever, during one interview she said:
"I watch a lot of films as a sort of training. A cornerstone of my work is trying to bend reality to exactly what I want, I think that's far more typical of film than photography. I'm not saying that I need a unicorn or something. But maybe I need a bunch of people dancing in the street and have two ways to achieve that: either try to do it as documentary and wait for someone to pass in front of me while dancing—but I could easily spend a lifetime waiting for that; or I can stop a person and say, "Hey, would you mind doing a dance, right here?"
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Obviously I could not avoid to mention the photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia, one absolute master of "cinematic" pictures.
The theatricality of his images is carefully constructed: he arranges the objects of each scene and devises precise lighting and framing for every project.
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