>>3679328Street photography is very popular on social media and world is changing. But the problem is street photographers aren't changing. Street Photographers are busy capturing cliche photos aka "bangers" while mooching off the aesthetics of street photography from 50 years ago and selling to the masses who don't know much about photography art history. The most sad thing about them is they just focus on copying aesthetics and but lack any substance. But I do admit that I am little bit overreacting and street photography isn't completely dead. And good street photographers still exist like Feng Li, Trent Park, kazuyoshi usui etc. Also There is nothing "high art" about those photographers. They are masters of the medium with highly influential bodies of work.
Comparing these documentary and visually poetic images with noise music really almost confirms my doubt that you haven't even bother to check those books.
>The New West - Robert Adams He released this book in 1975, if you want to do justice with work then judge his work with the context to his time. He is the cream of the New topographics movement. This one show literally changed how we view the landscape photography. And beautifully exposed the human and nature conflict in Anthropocene. A changing American west, the west filled with trailer homes and suburban housing. In the past it with was romanticized as this remote paradise filled with heavenly landscapes, the untouched American beauty by photographers like Ansel Adams. But Robert Adams went there and gave us this masterfully composed body of work filled with truth while staying connected with photography and painting traditions. Newtopo's influence can be easily seen everywhere in photography.
I could on about other photographers too but since you have dismissed this work as "noise music where anybody can scratch glass for two hours" I think you're not genuinely interested in finding the good photography work.
