France / 1898
Eugène Atget
Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève
Look at the work ↗A photography zine / Mark C Grant, LiverpoolPhotographs. Films. Field notes. Conversation.
THE WORLD
WON’T HOLD STILL.
From Mark’s photographs
Landscape through Glass.
A slow-shutter test caught the landscape, Mark’s reflection and the camera in one frame.
Captured Moment starts with a Liverpool photographer’s eye and looks outwards: Japanese Provoke, the moving street and pictures that leave room for uncertainty.
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A class to take outside
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Focus, light
and the moving street.
Eight illustrated lessons with films and field exercises. Begin with the focus patch, then try a short walk with one question and one lens.
Start the school ↗ · Field notes & downloads ↗Other eyes, other streets
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China / c. 1880
Lai Fong (Afong Studio)
A Commercial Street in Guangzhou
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from J. H. Wade, 1921.318 · CC0 1.0 · Collection record ↗
Print / Weather / Street
Hiroshige: the weather has changed the composition.
A bridge in Edo, a street in Guangzhou and twelve frames in the rain. Follow the routes before reaching for a moody preset.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Charles T. Brooks, 1941.89 · CC0 1.0 · Collection record ↗
Print / Music / Night
Whistler: leave some room between the notes.
A lithograph, a musical title and a quieter way to photograph after dark. Night need not arrive dressed as a crime thriller.
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The journal ↗
Reflections in the Shop Window / Mark C Grant
Photographers
Saul Leiter Fujifilm recipe: colour, rain and things half seen.
Proposed Fujifilm camera settings, not yet field-tested. A study of Saul Leiter’s colour, rain and half-seen streets, with a separate browser preset to try on your own photographs.
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Tina Modotti / [Workers, Mexico], ca. 1926–1930 / Amon Carter Museum, P1988.6 / Public domain
Journal
Tina Modotti. Geometry has a working life.
A block of stone, two bodies and a photograph that refuses to choose between form and feeling. Looking at Mexico, then taking the question onto our own streets.
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Photograph / Mark C Grant
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Black & white versus colour. What are you asking the photograph to do?
The colour argument, the monochrome sensor, and the expensive temptation to confuse a technical advantage with something worth saying. With Mark’s photographs, three films and a twelve-frame experiment.
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Photograph / Mark C Grant
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Provoke, then and now. The picture that will not settle.
Three magazines unsettled Japanese photography. Their questions still bite when a phone can tidy the shadows and a prompt can invent the street.
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Mark’s own photographs & artwork.
The Liverpool work that started the conversation.
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