[HN Gopher] The weird, wonderful history of fairground photography
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The weird, wonderful history of fairground photography
Author : anarbadalov
Score : 23 points
Date : 2022-03-29 11:34 UTC (1 days ago)
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| zabzonk wrote:
| Best and weirdest fairground shots - Diane Arbus?
| MrBuddyCasino wrote:
| Since the article contains few visuals, here's a gorgeous music
| video shot on a fairground to compensate:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKUfXDlTfBQ
| pwython wrote:
| You might like this one too
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BljkQJrl5wo
| dylan604 wrote:
| https://vimeo.com/188327011
|
| I did something similar, but different. Rather than video, I
| shot long exposure timelapse without a tripod as they are
| forbidden to use by the fair organization. So it was more of an
| exercise in "hide and watch" mentality (after being sent back
| to the car to put up the tripod) to be able to shoot the
| footage in the style I wanted. Came back the next night with a
| monopod, and they said no to that as well. Nevermind that while
| I was doing my thing without any *pod, I counted at least 20
| other people using tripods. It was me, my Matthellini clamp, a
| ball head, and a bunch of people looking at me like I had 3
| heads.
| pwython wrote:
| Some cool shoots in there, but the music was similar to me
| waiting for my 56k modem to connect. :)
| dylan604 wrote:
| Yeah, you'll never please everybody with music selection,
| so I just go with whatever I'm in the mood for at the time.
| Fun fact, I found that track on YouTube, reached out to the
| artist for permission to use it. His response was "yeah,
| sure. cool vid." He was just a teenager at the time, so I
| thought that made it a bit more interesting in an inside
| baseball kind of thing vs just some random track on a stock
| site.
| watersb wrote:
| Striking similarity to the photograohy in this of HN item
| today:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30818253
| khazhoux wrote:
| Skip your click. Two photographs.
|
| Yesterday there was an article about 1000-year-old jokes...
| without including a single joke. Why are people writing such
| useless articles?
| cngn wrote:
| Not the least bit curious about why there are so few
| photographs? Ah, there it is, in the second paragraph.
| trutannus wrote:
| Right, but I'm sure there's more out there than just these
| two. Having a post about photography with minimal photos is
| somewhat weird.
| whodunnit wrote:
| anarbadalov wrote:
| This was written by the chief curator of photography at the
| Museum of Modern Art. He is, in fact, a person.
| rideontime wrote:
| The first line below the title:
|
| > An essay from renowned photography historian Clement
| Cheroux's book "Since 1839... Eleven Essays on Photography."
| subpixel wrote:
| Reminds me of this book: https://www.mikkelaaland.com/county-
| fair-portraits-by-mikkel...
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