Its ALL ABOUT THE FRAME my Brothers & Sisterz. I'm tired of snot nose people running around thinking they Artists. Dam the digital camera. Whats important is whats inside the box & how you frame it. Its funny how Photoshop makes people instaProfessionals. I live for these Old Timerz!

Too Many photo sites anyway

Every one is a stunner but the ghostly Empire State Building shot takes the cake.

Anybody know what that bowling/billiards place in the top photo is now?

probably a Shoemania

I'm there -- thanks.

colour breaches castle walls,nyc

we live in our castles

slick sided granite buildings

tower over masses of scuttling

barbarians below

enduring profusions of earthy smells

fighting for provenance like plants

struggling to survive in

crowded jungle narrow canyons created

by our sky-hugging forts

which lean toward one another

whispering of our private

ugly secrets while we watch

from glassed-in ramparts and balconies

in unending block after block

of grey primitive existence

startled by row upon row

of bursting crimson tulips

waving bloody swordpoints

in springtime defiance

adorning the traffic median

along Park Avenue flowers

thriving in the bruises

of a city’s shadows

Unfortunately, most photographers today will never match photographers like him.

A lot of photographers from his own era couldn't match Erwitt's skill.

I contend that, percentage-wise, the ratio between great and hack photogs remain the same since the mass production of roll film and consumer cameras. There are lots of street photogs still producing excellent work using film and digital tech.

I just want to point out that I'm not detracting from anyone, but due to the time of the era, you're just not going to get the same kind of impact with today's photographers that you did with guys like Erwitt.

I'll have to disagree with your ratio, there's a significantly larger noise-to-signal [sic] these days -- just look at flickr, smugmug, etc. There's a whole lot of unabashed shit that's trying to get passed off as "art".

I've met dudes running around with Nikon D3's, D700's, Canon 1Ds Mk2's, 5D's, etc. who can't take a photograph to save their life.

agreed. I blame flickr and then idea that a good photo is now just a poorly composed, overly saturated and intensely bright hi def mess.

links from gothamist should open in a new window - or else its harder to come back to gothamist. otherwise this is a good post.

CTRL + Click

Yes I agree, but my cynic half tells me that the current linking system generates more page views than if a separate window or tab opened.

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