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Photographs: Europe, Photographs: Spain, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Mannequin, Madrid

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“Mannequin, Madrid” — A colorfully dressed mannequin on a Madrid street.

We went on a long walk on this morning in Madrid. First we trekked from our hotel near the opera house to the Sunday El Rastro street market, a wildly popular collection of hundreds of street vendors that draws huge crowds. As we began to loop back towards where we started, at some point we passed this colorful mannequin.

One of the pleasures of street photography is that I pay more attention to my surroundings. I notice things that probably would not have registered if I were not carrying a camera. At this point I don’t recall all of the details of this location, but I do know that this mannequin presented a stark and somewhat surprising contrast with the relatively mundane surroundings.

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Photographs: Europe, Photographs: Italy, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Utility Box Art, Arezzo

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“Utility Box Art, Arezzo” — A take off on Magritte’s “The Man in the Bowler Hat” on a utily box in Arezzo, Italy.

This image was on, as best as I could tell, some kind of utility box near the entrance to a building in Arezzo, Italy. I recall first becoming aware of similar things in Florence a few years ago, where I saw (and also photographed) an image of composer Giuseppe Verdi. (Verdi wears goggles in that image, which is the signature of an artist known as “Blub.”) I like them quite a lot — for their combination of whimsy, references to great art in everyday circumstances, and how they disrupt what can be a somewhat plain visual environment.

This was not the only one we saw in the Arezzo. As we walked around the small central area o the town we saw others with a variety of different themes. (You can find many more images by the artist, Mauricio Rapiti, on social media and elsewhere.) In this case, it wasn’t just the image itself that caught my attention, but also the way it interacts with the lines of the wall on which it is placed.

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Photographs: France, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Man at the Corner

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Man at the Corner
A worker leans against a wall on a Le Marais corner.

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A worker leans against a wall on a Le Marais corner.

Sticking with the Paris street photography theme a bit longer (perhaps quite a bit longer?), here is another photograph from Le Marais. Like several of the other recently-shared photographs, I made this one within a few moments of my “Je Suis Bleu” photograph featuring three women and a fascinating poster-covered wall. Initially that photograph was so central in my experience that day that I overlooked others made right before and after it. Writing an article about that photograph lured me back to the other raw files, and I ended up “discovering” several other interesting images.

This fellow figures in several of the exposures I made. There’s another where he is in the middle of a street, part of a larger group of pedestrians that is fronted by an “in your face” image of a walking woman. (You may see that one, too, before long.) Here he appears alone, just around the corner from the location of the “Je Suis Bleu” photograph. Viewers with sharp eyes may recognize the chalk head on the wall at far left.

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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: People, Photographs: Urban/Street

Brandon In Manhattan

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Brandon Mitchell on the streets of Manhattan

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Brandon on the streets of Manhattan.

This is, technically speaking, a family photograph. This is the oldest of our three “kids,” in a photograph I made near the end of December, along some street somewhere between Midtown and Lower Manhattan as we took a very long afternoon and early evening walk in New York City.

He has been in Manhattan for, well I’d have to look it up so let’s just say “a long time.” Could it have been a decade now? Because our two sons and their wives (along with Patty’s brother and his family) live in New York City, we are fortunate to have an excellent excuse to visit the place at least once per year or so. While it is impossible for visitors like us to really know the place, we feel comfortable with great swaths of this city now, and it is among my favorite places to photograph.

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