Word On The Street
Sifting through a back log of negatives from the street. Here’s a few choice frames from the past couple months… More on the way…
#0713_29 - Muni Train, San Francisco
#0714_15A - Market Street, San Francisco
#0714_35A - Market Street, San Francisco.
#0714_07A - Castro Street, San Francisco.
#0715_02A - Market Street, San Francisco.
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Still pairing down galleries little by little. Just posted a new batch from the street in 2017, here’s a few selects. More on the way, and lot’s of new prints in the works…
Check out the new gallery at https://www.josephszymanski.com/word-on-the-street-2017
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Been sifting through a bunch of work, both new and old, breaking things up into smaller more manageable pieces… Starting with the Word On The Street gallery I’m breaking it up by year and moving older work to an archive page, where I’ll be posting more galleries from years past. I’ll be rolling out more work shortly, in the meantime, a few highlights from the street in 2018…
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Misfit images, in no particular order…
#0688_03A Japan Town
#0688_07A Castro Station
#0688_30A Market Street
#0689_32A 24 Divisadero Bus
#0689_34A 18th and Castro Street
#0669_10A New Montgomery Street
#0689_36A Self Portrait, Muni Elevator
Sometimes I’m worried where San Francisco is heading. Sometimes I’m not. Sometimes I’m worried one day all the weirdos will be gone. Sometimes I’m worried we’re just completely failing the ones who are left.
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#0663_16 Mission Street
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Sometimes I hate color. Sometimes I can’t decide. My wife likes to tell people I’m color blind. They believe her because she’s a doctor.
Word on the street, in Kodak Portra 400…
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#0663_31 Minna Street
#0663_12 2nd Street Office Park
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"You know, I had a meeting with him [Henri Cartier-Bresson], one in particular, it was at this party in Lyon. Big event, you know. I was seated with him and a couple of women. You’ll never guess what he said to me. “William, color is bullshit.” End of conversation. Not another word. "
- William Eggleston
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And a few from the Mendocino Coast, in no particular order... May and June of 2018.
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San Francisco weirdness just never gets old... May of 2018...
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It Technicolor... From April and May, some local color from around The City...
Started pouring over old work one night serveral weeks ago, ended up completely revamping the gallery of street photographs posted here...
#0001_15 - Mission Street. San Francisco, 2003.
#0511_12A - Amboy, California, 2017.
After sifting through about 15 years worth of scans, I've posted around 120 images comprised of work going back to 2003 in reverse chronological order.
Everything is captioned and numbered, so if anyone is interested in prints, drop me a line with the reference number and I'll knock one out for you...
I'm treating this as a continuous work in progress, I'll be adding more images to it as I go. It's more of a living archive than a coherent piece, so keep an eye on it for new work posted semi-regularly.
#0287_14 - Hornstull Tunnelbana. Stockholm, 2014.
I have to say it's rather satisfying, on a personal level, to see this much work going back 15 years all in one place...
Check out the gallery at http://josephszymanski.com/word-on-the-street/
As always, a little randomness from the street... and a random frame from my mother's pool in Florida from a little vacation we took last month...
Buried in scans and grades and students and other stuff, not much time for wandering the streets these days, and the rain definitely puts a damper on things... For now a few frames from the past couple months. Got a lot on deck, more scans and Polaroids and what not to come...
We ended up on a twin masted schooner in The Bay back in September. I specifically forbid all my students from photographing the Golden Gate Bridge for my class, so this first one's for them...
The Golden Gate - 2017
Tourist, San Francisco Bay - 2017
And a few more pre-injury snaps... working on getting back into the groove, looking forward to getting back on the street. Hoping to ditch the cane by the new year and get back to shooting on a regular basis.
For the time being it still takes me all day to do what I used to do all day...
Trying to spend a little more time in the darkroom, should be adding some prints to the shop in the near future. Also working on some mock ups for a new book for next year.
Not that I'm making any new year's resolutions, but I really need to get back to work...
Mendocino Coast - 2017
Market Street - 2017
Mission Street - 2017
Market Street - 2017
New Montgomery Street - 2017
A collection of somewhat random frames, in no particular order, that didn't seem to make the cut, or the web, or whatever. For what it's worth...
#0566_08 - Tourists, Lincoln Memorial. Washington DC 2017
#0533_22 - "Diesel" San Francisco 2017
#0565_34 - Metro, Washington DC 2017
#0534_15A - Nursing Mother, New Montgomery Street 2017
#0532_35A - Market Street, 2017
#0566_36 - Washington DC 2017
#0567_31 - Civic Center Station, San Francisco 2017
#0568_02 - Market Street, 2017
In Technicolor...
Or Kodak Portra, as it were.
Finally getting through the backlog of scans that have been languishing on my hard drives, starting with some local color around The City from August and September.
All images shot with a Voigtlander R3m and a Nokton 35mm f/1.4 on Kodak Portra 400 film with an 812 Warming filter.
#0569_32 - Howard Street, 2017
#0568_21 - Market Street 2017
#0568_14 - Fourth Street 2017
#0569_03 Market Street 2017
#0568_34 - Fourth Street 2017
I'd never been to Washington, DC before, and I'm more than a little pissed that my first experience there was during the rein of the buffoon the donald... the sea of make American great again hat's at the Air and Space Museum was enough to make you nauseous...
#0564_29 - Tourists, Supreme Court of the United States 2017
The entire place feels overwhelmingly fortified, and I don't think I've been subjected to so many searches, x-rays and metal detectors in my entire life than I was in the week I was in DC. None the less, it was a good time...
#0564_07 - Metro Station, Washington, DC 2017
#0565_37 - Metro Train, Washington DC 2017
#0566_03 - Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC 2017
#0567_10 - Tourists, the Washington Monument. Washington, DC 2017
#0564_15 - Protestor, Capitol Hill. Washington, DC 2017
#0565_20 - Protestor, Capitol Hill. Washington, DC 2017
I hadn't been out to the East coast in probably a decade, but things worked out and I tagged along with my wife to a conference in Washington DC by way a New York for a few days...
#0563_14 - Brooklyn, New York 2017
New York has never really been my bag, nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there. It was good to get away, we stayed in Brooklyn and rode the subway to the Whitney, walked the High Line, people sleep there a lot, found a dead mouse, drank to much, ate even more, then hopped a train to DC...
#0563_06 - High Line, Manhattan 2017
#0563_08 High Line, Manhattan 2017
#0563_21 - Mouse, Brooklyn 2017
#0553_30 - Market Street, San Francisco 2017
In Technicolor no less... or Kodak Portra as it were...
A departure to say the least, I've been experimenting with some color film lately. My wife likes to tell people that I'm actually color blind. Seriously, she does it all the time.
All images shot with a Voigtlander R3m, 50mm Nokton f/1.1 on Kodak Portra 400 film.
Shout out to Photoworks SF for stellar processing and quick turn around... got to support the local shops...
#0551_17A - Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco 2017
#0553_18 - Market Street, San Francisco 2017
#0551_16A - New Montgomery Street, San Francisco 2017
General weirdness around the city from the past few months... have some color film on deck from the street, stay tuned...
#0532_05A - Kearny Street, 2017
#0532_03A - New Montgomery Street, 2017
#0532_23A - Market Street, 2017
#0534_01A - Socks, Castro District 2017
#0532_28A - Market Street, 2017
#0533_15 - Castro Street, 2017
