Street Photography: New York, New Orleans, Saint Louis, Chicago, San Francisco

By James Hegarty

Captivating images of candid street scenes and individual portraits shot between 2009 and 2017. Hegarty specializes in color street photography because "color adds a rich and powerful dimension to street photography. I really like how color gives the images extra life." 68 photos from five unique and distinctive cities are featured.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James Hegarty
• Release date: Aug 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370824175

James Hegarty

James Hegarty is an improvising pianist, music producer, and filmmaker who writes on creativity and artistic expression. His compositions have been performed in Europe, Asia, and throughout the US. He recently filmed a documentary on the creativity of street musicians in cities across America.Throughout the 1980s he worked as a free-lance commercial music producer confronting the intersection between art and commerce at a time when technology was rapidly changing the recording studio landscape.For twenty years he has been a college professor who teaches composition and jazz students to expand their creativity and discover their personal style. Over the years, he has been chair of the departments of music, mass communication, and communication, the division chair of creative arts and communication, and he now oversees departments that explore the potentials of multidisciplinary and experiential academic experiences.He has written concert reviews and articles on music technology for magazines and music journals. He interviews artists and innovators for his YouTube series, “Creativity Is...” Hegarty lives with his wife in a century-old historic home in St. Louis where he uses the space to record and produce avant-garde jazz and classical music.

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The Light of Voices Dancing

Do you know Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto? If you do, then you know what I see on the street. Harmony, order, individuality, thoughts blending and intersecting, a tangible example of who we really are. Schoenberg heard melody and chords in twelve note relationships. A concept that all notes were created equal, none greater or more important than any other. No tonic, no hierarchical assumptions of stronger or weaker, of consonance or dissonance.

It was a time of upheaval in the world. Humanity pushing against humanity, and striving for dominance. Everyone striving for the power chord, a nice strong G7. He was a refugee, Schoenberg was. A German Jew who managed to make it to the States and to continue his art, composing and teaching and holding to his vision that there was indeed beauty in a concept that few others were able to convincingly accept – the liberation of