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“Everybody Street illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to these artists. Covering nine decades of street photography, “Everybody Street” explores the careers and influences of many notable photographers––a number of whom have never been documented, featuring: Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Jill Freedman, Bruce Gilden, Joel Meyerowitz, Rebecca Lepkoff, Mary Ellen Mark, Jeff Mermelstein, Clayton Patterson, Ricky Powell, Jamel Shabazz, Martha Cooper, and Boogie, with historians Max Kozloff and Luc Sante."
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Vladimir Milivojevich (also known as Boogie) was born in Belgrade, which is the capital which was yugoslavia at the time. His nickname became boogie because his friends thought he reminded them as a cartoon character the boogieman. Boogie recalls his childhood as a peaceful place. Which was a place were crime rates were among the lowest in Europe and a strong sense on community prevailed. Boogie's father was also an amateur photographer. His father gave boogie his first camera, which caused boogie to walk the streets day and night for several hours recording the degradation of his city. |
This image shows a man who is posing, his stance is quite aggressive and he has two guns held in his hand which are pointing right at the viewer. This makes me feel threatened as his frame takes up most of the frame. He's dressed in an black hoodie which covers half of his face this contrasts with a background, which is white, bright and open. His body language is quiet threatening. This image is very clearly organised because he is right in the centre of the frame and the main focus is on him. I think that the photographer was standing the same level with the man, because from the camera's point of view is taken from the same level as were the man is standing. The photographer was close to the subject because we can see the image is very close up to the camera and clear and is not taken from a long distance. There is a lot of information in this image, such as the man, the two guns, the black hoodie, how the man has stood in the centre of the screen and how the background is blurred which shows the main focus is on the man. The background is blurred and not that much involved in the image, the background has been blurred because the main focus is on the man which has organised himself to stand in the centre of the image. The foreground is focused on the gun, I would call this photograph aggressive and bold.
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