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WNYC explores street photography through the eyes of six New Yorkers (including our own Jake Dobkin); they call the medium "a uniquely New York art form" that dates back to the days of Weegee the Famous. Weegee's site holds a quote from Naked City that sums it all up pretty well: "He will take his camera and ride off in search of new evidence that his city, even in her most drunken and disorderly and pathetic moments, is beautiful."
The station also asks that both amateur and professional photographers alike submit their New York street photography for their Streets Shots Challenge. Here are some of the entries, and the rest can be seen in their Flickr Pool.
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There's quite a bit of good street photography on Flickr. I like Joe Holmes' shots myself.
Street photography is a "uniquely New York art form"???
Homeless people always look more dignified in black and white.
Dates back to the days of Weegee that's a laugh
for we older photogs(pre digital) Weegee admired
Lewis Hine's work ,perhaps then Hine was the first
documentary photog of this city well more or less.
Shows you how history changes and in this digital
age more rapidly whether true or not.
Anyway everyone is a photographer today no big deal.
I wonder if Flickr/Yahoo! is helping sponsor this.