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I'm reminded of Sturt's greatness every morning when I drive the 805 through La Jolla. This photo mesmerized me as a teenager
sick as fuck
he's definitely all time best. what's up with photographers now - is it a film vs digital thing [plus obviously a great mind and eye]? cause you didn't have to be around at the time to still find all of his photos impactful - so many boring photos happening with such great skating these days.
the thing with modern skate photography is it has to be perfect and follow a bunch of rules if you wanna get published, I believe that all started with Atibas influence, he really cleaned everything up which forced everyone else too, and created a lot of very boring textbook perfect photgraphy. Most of Dan's famous photos would never be run in modern publications cuz he cuts peoples heads, parts of boards, holds the camera at random angles, even a to amazing Spike Jonze stuff would probably get axed cuz he broke a lot of the rules. Basically now everything has to be perfect composed and framed, you need to see run up, landing, all flashes need to be hidden and evenly lit. Like anything it gets boring wants it gets perfected.