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This is Sonny Holiday. If you've ever strolled South street in Philadelphia during the fairer of days you might have seen him preforming his street magic acts with his black wayfarer style glasses frames with no lenses, and some variation of suit pants, jacket and vest with a hat, tennis shoes and a knee pad on his left knee.
His art is slight of hand and he relies on the passer-by's moods to fill his hat at the end of each act. When I first started shooting street, he was one of my first subjects I captured. I have probably photographed him more than any other subject on many occasions. When shooting street performers, it seems easy, almost like cheating, because they expect you to photograph them, or if they don't, they should. You can take a photo of a street performer, but the hard part, in my opinion is taking a photo of that person, and truly capturing that person and what they do, what kind of person they are, the feeling they give you. With Sonny Holiday, I have tried on many occasions, and perhaps come close, but never close enough to achieving this. This day, I feel I have truly captured him. What you will see in the next few days will be some photos from that day of him. Although, with him I do not believe it is possible to perfectly capture him in a way which fully conveys how he is and what he does, I think these photos are almost as good as it gets as far as that goes. #2 [link] Infos Canon EOS-3~35mm~Ilford XP2@320~neg scan And you may remember him from the past in my gallery. If you browse, you will find an old photo or two. Daily DeviationGiven 2007-05-05Sonny I by =MyPrivateParty Street portrait! Yeah! Love everything this deviant included in the composition of this photo. Not .. to ... mention the subject! Bravo! (Suggested by `Manu-80 and Featured by `cweeks) |
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March 31, 2007
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I love this as a portrait, a street portrait.
it really is fantastic, and you capture a charachter so much bigger than his slender frame suggests.
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Horribly intrusive watermarks are tacky. If you're concerned about people stealing your photos, don't post them on the internet.
Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. (HCB)
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"If there is no God, why be good?" he asks rhetorically, and responds: "Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up." - Richard Dawkins
He looks like he's very funny and is able to tell a lot of stories but there's something mysterious in his eyes, too.
As a plus, the combination of his face with the misfits sign is nice. Maybe that's part of his mystery
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