80's life through a lens

Well, art is very subjective, as has already been said.

In Yorkshire Sculpture Park, someone stuck a toilet on top of a pole a while back, called it art. :shrug:

Maybe what makes these photographs good is just a bit too subtle for some and less so for others.
 
desantnik said:
They are just what looks like the fail pile from someones wanderings with a photo in the 80's.
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Perhaps that's exactly what they are, only viewed now as a post-modernist deconstruction of the entire concept of street art, which is rather fitting to the 80s both as a decade and a subject.
 
Strappy said:
Perhaps that's exactly what they are, only viewed now as a post-modernist deconstruction of the entire concept of street art, which is rather fitting to the 80s both as a decade and a subject.
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I can't decide if you are being serious or not.... however in jest or otherwise, that is exactly how you could dress this up for a critics review in the Guardian :lol:
 
Now there's a name I haven't seen for a few years, I think he used to have a page in AP, called himself a film a day man or something like that.

Each to there own, but when you look at the work of other photographers of the time, Herbie Knott, Don Mcphee, Mccullin and Dennis Thorpe to name a few, his stuff looks like a collection of poor Flickr pics.
 
Have to agree with the majority - they should have gone in the bin when first taken. There is a slight historic curiosity about them - e.g the spycatcher seller but nothing much beyound that
 
I wasn't in the UK during the 1980s at all, as I said. Was there anything really iconic about this period? I - sort of - know Thatcher was PM, the trade unions were emasculated and it was supposed to be the era of greed, but that's all second hand. Just interested.
 
I like the ones shown on the BBC website. Ignoring the content in the photos because of the technicalities is a shame. The one of the couple kissing, for example, looks like it was shot from a low angle i.e. shot from the hip. Perhaps to be discreet and also to capture a fleeting moment. Some really interesting shots that tell you something about the era in which they were captured if you can look beyond the superficial.
 
desantnik said:
Emperor's new clothes?
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Sounds like 99.9999% of street photography! Most of it is utter tripe, snaps of strangers with no story or artistic merit.
 
Not being picky or anything but the second pic, the one with the boy looking at the roller wasn't even taken in the 80's... look at the car sitting in the middle of the dealers window. It's a Supra on a 'G' plate which makes it 1990. ;)
 
Lovely images. From a very different era, before the internet made experts of us all.
 
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