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jagannath rao adukuriUntil the late 1970s, street photography meant trying to make a composition very quickly of strangers in public spaces. But Wall said at about that time, he was among a new generation of artists that included German artist Andreas Gursky in Dusseldorf who were working with photography but were interested in taking the medium somewhere new.
What Hernandez did technically was change from using a hand-held 35 mm camera to a large format camera on a tripod. This both slowed down the way Hernandez took street photographs and opened up his work, Wall said.
"If you look at these pictures which he made at bus stops in Los Angeles, first of all you notice the massive detail," Wall said in an interview as he walked through the Hernandez exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
"The whole picture tends to open up: Things far away can be seen because of the way the lens delivers information.
"One of the things about large- format photography is to replicate a kind of calm, contemplative vision of the world.
"It is not necessarily an instantaneous grasp of something. You try to deliver the whole space."
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