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Dennis Hopper: Photographs, 1961–1967 is a photography book by American actor, filmmaker and photographer Dennis Hopper. It was published, in a limited edition, in 2009, and in a general release, in 2011. It contains a selection of photographs that he took in the 1960s. A second edition, in smaller size, was published in 2018.
Gordon Parks. Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography.
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15. " [T]he tradition of 'street photography', so prominent in the history of [photography], is practically nonexistent in California. It has been taken up by only a few younger photographers, namely Henry Wessel, John Harding, and Bill Dane in San Francisco, and Anthony Hernandez, who photographs Rodeo Drive."
Street photography is a vast genre that can be defined in many ways, but it is often characterized by the spontaneous capturing of an unrepeatable, fleeting moment, often of the everyday going-ons of strangers. [ 43] It is classically shot with wider angle lenses (e.g. 35mm) and usually features urban environments.
Candid photography is also used in journalism and documentary photography. A candid photograph is a photograph captured without creating a posed appearance. The candid nature of a photograph is unrelated to the subject's knowledge about or consent to the fact that photographs are being taken, and are unrelated to the subject's permission for ...
Social documentary photography or concerned photography is the recording of what the world looks like, with a social and/or environmental focus. It is a form of documentary photography, with the aim to draw the public's attention to ongoing social issues. It may also refer to a socially critical genre of photography dedicated to showing the ...
Stripes. (film) Stripes is a 1981 American action comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, Sean Young, and John Candy. Ramis wrote the film with Len Blum and Dan Goldberg, the latter of whom also served as producer alongside Reitman. It tells the story of an immature taxi cab driver ...