{"id":6597,"date":"2022-08-06T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T07:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/06\/i-love-the-contrasting-textures-his-amazing-hair-the-dirty-window-shane-taylors-best-phone-picture\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T07:36:55","slug":"i-love-the-contrasting-textures-his-amazing-hair-the-dirty-window-shane-taylors-best-phone-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/06\/i-love-the-contrasting-textures-his-amazing-hair-the-dirty-window-shane-taylors-best-phone-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I love the contrasting textures \u2013 his amazing hair, the dirty window\u2019: Shane Taylor\u2019s best phone picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The street photographer reflects on a chance encounter on the top deck of a bus<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Shane Taylor began taking photographs about 20 years ago as a step in overcoming social anxiety. \u201cI was very reclusive, but I decided to go to college,\u201d he says. \u201cI studied design and discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/oct\/02\/helen-levitt-photographer-new-york-in-the-street-photographers-gallery\" title=\"\">Helen Levitt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2014\/jun\/16\/garry-winogrand-street-photographer-retrospective-in-pictures\" title=\"\">Garry Winogrand<\/a>, and this thing called street photography. Learning the craft helped me in pragmatic ways; I had to leave the house to do it. I began to stop avoiding people and actively approach them instead. It was basically immersion therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the streets suddenly full of subjects, as opposed to strangers, Taylor found himself repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/aug\/25\/photographer-shane-taylor-images-london-crowds-instagram\" title=\"\">drawn to commuters<\/a>, buses and the London Underground. \u201cYou find all these people so densely packed together, yet entirely by themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/aug\/06\/shane-taylors-best-phone-picture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e04ee2f6553b2975518297907e8d157d75eaec98\/0_586_2689_1613\/master\/2689.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=182e0a4e921432da19b690430095856d\" title=\"\u2018I love the contrasting textures \u2013 his amazing hair, the dirty window\u2019: Shane Taylor\u2019s best phone picture\" \/>The street photographer reflects on a chance encounter on the top deck of a bus<\/p>\n<p>Shane Taylor began taking photographs about 20 years ago as a step in overcoming social anxiety. \u201cI was very reclusive, but I decided to go to college,\u201d he says. \u201cI studied design and discovered Helen Levitt and Garry Winogrand, and this thing called street photography. Learning the craft helped me in pragmatic ways; I had to leave the house to do it. I began to stop avoiding people and actively approach them instead. It was basically immersion therapy.\u201d<br \/>\nWith the streets suddenly full of subjects, as opposed to strangers, Taylor found himself repeatedly drawn to commuters, buses and the London Underground. \u201cYou find all these people so densely packed together, yet entirely by themselves.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The street photographer reflects on a chance encounter on the top deck of a bus Shane Taylor began taking photographs about 20 years ago as a step in overcoming social anxiety. \u201cI was very reclusive, but I decided to go to college,\u201d he says. \u201cI studied design and discovered Helen Levitt and Garry Winogrand, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/06\/i-love-the-contrasting-textures-his-amazing-hair-the-dirty-window-shane-taylors-best-phone-picture\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I love the contrasting textures \u2013 his amazing hair, the dirty window\u2019: Shane Taylor\u2019s best phone picture<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}