Let's have a thread on Greg GirardYeah I am thinking he is kino.
1976 btw
hoooleee KINO
>>4472540He's really good and consistent. Captured a lot of amazing scenes over the years. Of course this thread will be full of seething incels saying he sucks for the only reason because he's currently popular.
>>4472547Rape em I discovered Girard on /p/ 5 or 6 six years. Newfags need to kill themselves.
I wonder why do I live in the basement gooing like an incel and not photographing the world. I am brown doe
>The most densely populated city(Kowloon Walled City) on Earth had only one postman. His round was confined to an area barely a hundredth of a square mile in size. Yet within that space was a staggering number of addresses: 350 buildings, almost all between 10 and 14 stories high, occupied by 8,500 premises, 10,700 households, and more than 33,000 residents.
>>4472562Here's my guess, he just didn't deliver any post.
>>4472562he shoot Kowlon with ektachrome I think
>>4472572He did deliver. There's a whole section in the City of Darkness book about him gaining trust from the city thugs, and developing a route to cover all the buildings.
Is this the guy with all the fake Instagram followers?Nothing says success like when I click on there followers and they all have like 0-3 posts each.
I love his work. Gone of his books, would like all of them
>>4472614I've seen it. I'm surprised there isn't a popular manga based off him. Seems like prime material.
>>4472544>dude teal and orange lmaoLanier tier
>>4472848He did this in last century before you were born and there was no teal and orange meme
Have loved his work for a long time (vancouverfag reporting). The guy is fucking retarded when it comes to his books though. He ruins half the shots by double page spreading and putting important compositional elements right in the gutter. Id totally buy more of his books if it wasn't for this.
>>4472628This. If you check his posts with his "huge" follower base he has almost no comments every time. But always 1000+ likes, which are from bots. Real engagement at his follower size and for those likes would be at least 20+ genuine comments. He is a botter.
Bump. Why is everyone so salty? He's a legend.
well, he is not exactly herzog... but i really enjoy his american stopover book. i also like his "early" hongkong/japan works too, i am not too sure about his more recent stuff, the sakura one doesnt quite hit
>>4474466>well, he is not exactly herzog... That's a good thing you stupid cinefag, this is a photography board in case you didn't notice.
>>4474473obv talking about fred herzog you dumb fucking cunt
>>4474477Ironically this little exchange proves cineape's thesis that nobody gives a shit about stills and that cinema is the real endgame.
>>4474480i do. i rarely watch cinema these days, yet go through many printed books.
>>4474473I dont know if yiu know this but film/cinema is actually a sequence of photos
Girard's work is amazing and really made me think that it's not my fault for wandering around my ugly, sparse, small corner of New England and not producing any work. He pointed his camera at scenes of absolutely stunning visual intrigue. I need to travel to find something worth photographing to get the same ambience, unfortunately. In a more practical sense, looking at his work was what finally made me start trying to set myself up for success when photographing, ie only going out when the light is perfect. I used to just walk around sidewalks on overcast afternoons and wonder why my photos were all boring.
>>4481714>small corner of New EnglandNigga you have whole gothic legacy of Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft. Go make some shitTwo trannies(before transitioning) made a book in New England, Sleep Creek, it's decent.
>>4474477I thought you were talking about the Herzog railroad company
>>4472540I like the style of these photos, but it seems to me like he also took a whole bunch of not so good ones that he also published for whatever reason so the photos presented here are not representative for his "style" so to speak.. at least that is the impression I've got after I looked at his instagram, but these are cool photos nonetheless and I believe he does something that many contemporary shooters gets wrong and that is to always go for perfect shooting conditions, meaning to never venture outside with a camera once it is either cold, rainy, dark etc.
>>4481714if you were born and raised in kowloon city you'd think that wasnt interesting too. it is your fault.
In a just world he'd be equally as famous but for his documentary panache and not just because bugmen see neon lights and their eyes pop out of their skull
>>4482128I dunno, lots of photographers who grew up in NYC or LA manage to be inspired by their surroundings into adulthood and produce great work there, so I don't think familiarity kills inspiration. When I've travelled to either of those cities I also come back with quality photos. This is the typical street scene in my part of the country. Sure I could do a Todd Hido "homes at night" type of thing but that's really not the direction I'm trying to go in.
