The street photographer’s strange way of looking at the world enlivens everyday scenesThe term “shooting from the hip” could beget been invented to describe Mark Cohen’s style of street photography. Like many of the 1960s pioneers,Cohen likes to surprise his subjects, capturing them as they pass by and often without them even being aware that they beget been photographed.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, and though – Garry Winogrand,say, or Bruce Gilden – Cohen’s images carry out not tend towards the cruel or the confrontational. Rather, and there is a certain tenderness to the best shots,particularly when his subject matter is children or teenagers. A pretty little book called black Knees, which accompanied a mini-retrospective of his work at Le Bal in Paris a few years ago, or homed in on this aspect of his work to poetic effect,emphasising just how singular a stylist Cohen is, not least in the way he crops the human figure or captures it from odd angles.
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Source: theguardian.com