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  →  The Street Photography of Chris Weeks   .techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic)   by techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) It was only after many long frustrating hours of trying to describe what’s so special about the photographs of cweeks (https://www.deviantart.com/cweeks)... That I finally realized I was trying to describe something that wasn’t there. I finally realized that the magical something that sets cweeks (https://www.deviantart.com/cweeks)’ works apart from others is that his camera disappears. There is no sense as you look at his photos of street scenes and other captures that you are looking through a lens, even the lens of a particularly talented photographer.  There is a sense of simply walkin

   Street Photography   The Capture vs. The Pose    portrait of a WW2 vet...    by cweeks (https://www.deviantart.com/cweeks)  .techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic)  by techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) When a subject poses to have his or her photograph taken, the subject tries to project a message about himself or  herself by how he or she “poses”, by the attitude of his or her body language or facial expression. If the subject is posed by the photographer, the body pulled and prodded into the desired angles,  the facial expression “directed”, it is the photographer who is intending to communicate a message.  In either case, posing or posed, there is undeniably something