“My interest grew into a compulsion,” Shirley Baker wrote in 1989, about her decades-long practice of street photography. See more of the photos pulled from her extensive archive:
In Shirley Baker’s photographs, men are caught gesturing, or mid-stride. Women slip past or sit, reflecting; sometimes they are close together, conversing, conspiring. Children play, occasionally surveying the camera with a look somewhere between innocence and wisdom.
They show an image maker with an analytical eye, someone who caught moments of great coincidence or aesthetic harmony, but who saw through the purely visual into something more human—the great madness and oddness of this life. “I like to watch people—not as a snooper with a hidden camera, but as a member of the public like anyone else on the street,” Baker wrote, in one of the many essays and texts left among her belongings.
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