Mark Cohen - Photographer

end result may be interesting but its rudeness no matter how u justified.

Great documentary, and a great photographer, but I do find it very uncomfortable watching him just invade people's personal space like that.

3.24, no chance would i ever try to catch whatever he just did. NO CHANCE, looks like an upskirter

developing a technique for getting his a&& kicked!

why is it so hard and difficult to take good pictures :( ...

They jump for joy! Did you ever flash someone with heart trouble?

I’m all for pushing the limits of photography but this guy is just weird and seems to just take photos as a cover for his particular kinks.

Photographic Assault

Some striking imagery over time but it's invasive and obnoxious street photography showing little respect for his subjects by getting in their face and jolting them with the artificiality of the flash, diluting a form that is defined by working with available light.

Doing this photography today would get you killed

Its a form of abuse towards others he doesnt seem to fully grasp in favor of his own personal gain regardless.
Successful commercially, yet a dismal moral failure.

I think this only works because people knew that these pictures would not be published in seconds. That’s why this does not work in todays time.

Now it’s extremely difficult to be not wired like them back then. 😂

he's funny hahhahaha

Most of his subjects are the old or women and children. He openly admits in this video he often glamorizes the sexual aspects or body parts of the stranger. He even seems to take a picture up a woman's skirt in the documentary.

This guy is clearly perverse and immoral and whose ethos shouldn't be celebrated or remembered as "art". You can see the near universal consensus in the comments today people wouldn't accept this. But back then, people used to smoke cigarettes ignorantly as well. Clearly we've become more aware to such violations of personal liberty and freedom by 2023 and I hope this guy would get arrested today.

Very serial killer-esque

Seems overly creepy. I would feel attacked if this happened to me and some guy just runs away

What Camera did this filmed by can anyone tell pls
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people find this offensive yet our society has so much more invasive stuff that are legal

Gosh. You could never get away with this in todays age. It’s literally FASCINATING watching how nonchalant the people being photographed are. Just a quick “what the heck? Oh… carry on” 😍❤️

This man is a sex pest

So Bruce Gilden just copied this dude?

Who's the original Gilden or Cohen?

Never fly today. Voyeurism they would say. Bending down and taking pictures of women's legs! maybe back then. Would not try it today.

no.

when you got absolutely nothing to say, but you got a flash.

He’s like a street magician...using misdirection. Pretty cool

This is just throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks. He’s like Bruce Gilden except instead of being rough and confrontational he’s sneaky and a little on the creepy side

He does create some interesting images. He could easily be taken as a pervert and and get the piss beat out of him.

woman on the wall was UNCOMFORTABLE

If he did that in 2022 in the major cities within the screwed-up USA, you can imagine what the females (who wanna be males) would do to him on the streets. These males (albeit with breasts and vaginas) might even call the cops😂😂😂

This guy above is not a spoilt poo-see who relies on autofocus and still cant it right😂😂😂

Manual lens…. and he can shoot so quickly. THAT IS REAL SKILL.

I ask a lot of people on the street for permission to take their photo and they say “NO!” Imagine the brutal reaction I would get if I took the shot without their permission like Mr.Cohen and they saw me take their picture?! That said, I will commonly use zoom lenses and shoot from far away in a stealthy manner without the subject ever knowing I took their picture. I mostly shoot black and white with 50 year old vintage film SLRs.

He’d never get away with that today! He would either get his butt kicked or thrown in jail! Also, at the very least, a lot of the type of street photography that Mr. Cohen is doing is incredibly rude and disrespectful.

mark and bruce style of photography is called COJONES street photography

They need to still take Mark Cohen to jail for this - I don’t care he is old. lol. So strange chasing a girl down a dark alleyway because she has nice legs and you want a picture of it. Wtf

Unfortunately you can't really do this style today in the world we live in. With the worries of social media and silly privacy rules people are a lot more on edge. Unless you are shooting someone who knows about the history of street photography then sometimes people can be hostile, even though us a the shooter, it is for creative expression, the subject doesn't know this. The sad state of our society now.

Major creep

Is anyone knows that Cohen using the strobe light? / I am using M6 but I can't search that strobe in Google... help me someone pls~!

just imagine him shooting a wedding! ''Honey, do you think we need to hire some sort of entertaining at the venue? Nah we have Cohen!''

Everybody is talking about "if he did that today he...", like it was ok back then? This way of taking photos is f*king rude. Street photography is cool but this. disgusting.

BEAUTIFUL

'Trespass their space' - says it all.

this is definitely on the extreme side of street photography lol, it can be done but there's definitely a way to approach it

Hope he was getting lots of punches from People for beeing so rude.

this was kind of creepy how he got these shots… but hey…