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.. title: Street Art and Photography
.. slug: street-art-and-photography
.. date: 2018-04-28 14:03:49 UTC+02:00
.. tags: street art, photography, art, graffiti, inspiration, trace
.. link:
.. description: How street art and photography interconnect?
.. type: text
.. author: Alexandre Dulaunoy
.. figure:: ugly.jpg
.. _harmony: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adulau/27163039559/
.. _Graffiti_to_the_Street_Art_Movement: https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/976281/1/NR63383.pdf
to achieve harmony_ you need to master ugliness, ƒ/2.8, 28mm
Years ago, I started to photograph graffiti at large including posters, tags and all the traces left by street artists. The original reason was maybe keeping an archive of this ephemeral art or make visible very small things which are usually unnoticed or considered as vandalism. There is a theory that the existence of street art is bound to photography. The thesis by *Anna Waclawek* `From Graffiti to the Street Art Movement: Negotiating Art Worlds, Urban Spaces, and Visual Culture, c. 1970 - 2008 <https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/976281/1/NR63383.pdf>`_ provides an exhaustive research on the topic.
Not everything can be theorized in photography. My photographic journey in street art evolves and