Hello Steemians!

My name is Odysseas Tsouvalas and I am Photographer.

First of all I want to say sorry for my offline status, but I was sick and had no energy to make what I love.

This is photography. This is me.

My dedication for this week will be for one street photographer.
What is the difference from his work? Easy to see it.
Spontaneity and Crooked Horizon lines in street photography

He was one of my first dedications when I decide to follow photography, and be a real photographer when my teacher asked me "You want to be a photographer. What else will you make from other people who have a photo camera and shoot ?" The answer was not easy. If you believe it is, I am waiting for your answers as replies.

And to make it greater, the best answer will win 5 SBD from me.

Gary Winogrand
American Street Photographer

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"When I’m photographing I see life. That’s what I deal with,”

Those words reveal his passion for photography. His life was photography, and his photography IS life. His passion though, was for his problem, because his days till the end of his life was nothing more than walk to the street's of America, and photoshoot everything. Where is the problem with that? He died untimely, in 1984 and left behind no less of 6500 rolls of unprocessed film!!!

“often worked in a headlong way, preferring to spend another day shooting rather than processing his film or editing his pictures” Leo Rubinfien, curator

This is for me what I call street photography. No matter how many times you spend, how many shoes you will throw, how many films will you spend (today, thanks to technology we have cards with a MUCH bigger number of shots), there will always be a new frame at the street. The problem here is, that today, because of technology reveals to us the easy road, we forgot how to work hard, and study, to be able to call ourselves "professionals". In art too.

For Garry Winogrand, life was the energy of the street in all its unruly momentum. His photos reveal the daily life in New York City and America from the 50s to the early 80.

From his first frames, he shows us what will come later. And this was easy to be understood from his objects too. Awkward Expressions are the main part of his photos and it's visible everywhere.

The funny part of this is that there were not only people who disturbed from his tact, but there were animals too.

He wanted everyone to know that he was photo shooting them.

Something more about Winogrand's photos is the Horizon. He shoots with Crooked Horizon, and the reason is simple. He wanted to reveal it's true position. The street, the moves, the life...

“I look at the pictures I have done up to now, and they make me feel that who we are and what we feel and what is to become of us just doesn’t matter. Our aspirations and successes have become cheap and petty. I read the newspapers, the columnists, some books, I look at the magazines (our press). They all deal in illusions and fantasies. I can only conclude that we have lost ourselves and that the bomb may finish the job permanently, and it just doesn’t matter, we have not loved life. I cannot accept my conclusions, and so I must continue this photographic investigation further and deeper. –Garry Winogrand, from The Man in the Crowd.

Those were some of his words about his work. He didn't want to be different, but he wanted to show us the true meaning of life. Something that we forgot, and year by year, we will forget more parts of it, till the end, we sall forget to leave.

Garry Winogrand at Rice University