Google Street View has a straightforward conceptual goal...to make a continuous panorama that encompasses every public street on earth.
Artists who make photographs in public spaces need not be so dogmatic in their approach. Saul Leiter sought-out small visual miracles, where aspects of the street came together in a 1/60th of a second that created brilliant, harmonious mosaics of color and form.
"'Seeing is a neglected enterprise,' Mr. Leiter often said. Where other New York photographers of the period were apt to document the city's streets discreetly- streets, people, buildings - Mr. Leiter captured the almost indefinable spaces where all three intersect, many of them within a two-block radius of the East Village apartment in which he had lived since the early 1950s." -(Margalit Fox, Saul Leiter, Photographer who Captured New York's Palette, Dies at 89, The New York Times)
"I go out with my camera because I enjoy catching certain moments. Of course I don't know that I'm going to get what I'm going to get. It takes time." -Saul Leiter, In No Great Hurry: 15 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter (Thomas Leach, director, 2014)
Saul Leiter, Taxi, 1956
Saul Leiter, Barbershop, 75, 1950's
Saul Leiter, Street Scene, 1959
Saul Leiter, Dog in Doorway, Patterson, 1952
Saul Leiter, Foot on El, 1954
Richard Renaldi, Touching Strangers
CBS Evening News, June 20, 2014
Richard Renaldi, From the series "Touching Strangers"
From; The New Yorker Magazine - 24 Hours at the Epicenter of the Pandemic
Richard Renaldi, 12:11p.m. Washington Square Park
Richard Renaldi, 12:21p.m. Greenwich Village
Richard Renaldi, 1:53 p.m. SoHo
