ROBERT BROWN Photography

Street Photography from Europe and North America, by Robert Brown. |
Italy, Venice, 2004

I was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. My first foray into art was through
music. During my teens and twenties, I played guitar with various
rock and blues bands, appearing in select venues around the midwest.

I became interested in street photography while pursuing filmmaking in
the late 1980s. After seeing a book of photographs by Henri Cartier-
Bresson and Andre' Kertesz, I soon abandoned filmmaking, and for the
past twenty-one years have been a photographer primarily of people,
preferring a candid shooting style rather than portraiture. Mostly, I
enjoy working in the city, amid all the excitement and unpredictability.
I especially like irony in pictures and I am always open to the incidental
and unanticipated.

I also enjoy watching motion pictures, particularly foreign films, and
find them a great source of inspiration. Early works by Fellini and
Ingmar Bergman are among my favorites, as are films by Carol Reed
and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.  Film Noir from the 1940s and 1950s are also
of great interest.  Other influences are Garry Winogrand, Robert
Doisneau, Edouard Boubet, and Julia Margaret Cameron.