{"id":1880,"date":"2025-06-23T19:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:34:33","slug":"picasso-shirt-and-discreet-street-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/picasso-shirt-and-discreet-street-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso shirt and discreet street photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to admit, sometimes I see something while I’m out – like this Picasso shirt (or, more accurately, in the style of Picasso) – and I get the urge to try to discreetly take a photograph. As you can see, I do respect the privacy of the person in the sense that I’m not capturing faces or some other easy way to identify the person – I’m more interested in the shirt here than the person. Would I care if someone discreetly took my picture? I guess I wouldn’t mind as long as they’re not focused on my face – but one can argue that with today’s high tech security cameras everywhere, our faces are probably being recorded numerous times in any given day.<\/p>\n

From an artistic standpoint, one can also argue that some of the great street photographers – Robert Frank, Gary Winogrand, Vivian Maier, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among many others – captured faces and much more of random strangers on the street, and made great art in the process. Not saying this is great art, but I am capturing something I find visually interesting.<\/p>\n

So here’s a couple other recent discreet photos I’ve taken, to add some more examples to this topic. At left is a pair of dogs with matching sweaters that I saw at the Field + Supply show in Kingston, and below right is a woman with a funky-shaped skirt – is it Issey Miyake, perhaps? – that I saw at the I-54 Art Fair. I was intrigued by how the middle section of that skirt sticks out and has distinct shape – I wonder if there’s wire in there creating that appearance?<\/p>\n

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I have to admit, sometimes I see something while I’m out – like this Picasso shirt (or, more accurately, in the style of Picasso) – and I get the urge to try to discreetly take a photograph. As you can see, I do respect the privacy of the person in the sense that I’m not … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[255,284,397,593],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-street-photography","tag-dog-sweaters","tag-fashion","tag-issey-miyake","tag-picasso-shirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}