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How to take great pictures: six acclaimed photographers share their secrets – The Guardian

Trust in chance, have fun, know where to stand… as the celebrated street photographer Joel Meyerowitz publishes a handbook, he and five other masters offer bite-size lessons

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Lesson one: Joel MeyerowitzAnticipate a moment
World-renowned street photographer Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) began taking photos of urban life in his home town of New York in the 1960s and was highly influential in changing attitudes to colour photography.
One of the great joys of being on the street is staying alert to the unexpected. As a young kid I grew up in the Bronx, in a real tough, working-class neighbourhood, and my father, who was a street-smart New Yorker and an athletic man (a pr…

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