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Thomas Hawk is a photographer and blogger in the SF Bay Area writing under the pen name Thomas Hawk. Professionally Thomas Hawk is an investment advisor in a non-technology related field and uses his pen name to separate his investment career and identity from his thoughts and opinions on new media and technology, both fields which neither he nor his firm advise or offer services for professionally. Additionally, Thomas Hawk is Evangelist and CEO for the photo sharing Site Zooomr. My statement as an artist is to outdo New York’s Little Angel Angelo Rizzuto, who between 1952 and 1966 documented New York City with over 60,000 photos. We all have but a short time on this earth. As slow as time can be it is also fast, swift, furious and mighty and then it’s over. Angelo Rizzuto is dead, Jack Kerouac is dead. John Lennon is dead. Andy Warhol is dead. Garry Winogrand is dead. Lee Friedlander isn't dead yet, but he probably will be at some point. When I'm not taking or processing pictures I'm mostly thinking about pictures. I'm trying to publish a library of 1,000,000 finished, processed photographs before I die. You can reach me at tom(at)thomashawk.com.
9 Comments:
Great stuff. His results are really impressive. He's got cajones.
I like his style. I'd love to see a video of his response to a security guard telling him he can shoot photos from the public street!!
Yeah I can not believe him, that's amazing. I barely have the confidence to ask someone if I can make a picture of them.. Haha. Great stuff, street photography is my favorite.
I've seen this dude before and thought he was just some crazy guy.
I now see this is true...but i like this stuff. :)
I love street photography, but I can never get in the mindset to do it - there's a part of me that just feels too guilty about shooting people who haven't consented to be photographed. But then, that's what makes the results so compelling.
(Which actually makes shooting in NYC incredibly difficult - I can't point the camera anywhere without having faces in the shot. I wish I could just take his approach.)
Amazing. Thanks for posting this.
Ugh. What a horrible man. I like street photography quite a bit, but the whole creepy old man getting in your face with a camera is "unsavory" at best.
On one side I wish I had "cajones" (as Jeremy mentions). On the other side, I have a feeling if he caught me on the wrong day I'd throw my ethics out too and his camera would be in pieces.
So, when is Brucey gonna keep it real and do his thang in East Flatbush? Lots of characters there.
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