{"id":932,"date":"2013-11-07T00:08:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T04:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/?p=932"},"modified":"2013-11-07T00:14:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T04:14:41","slug":"photographing-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/photographing-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how Brandon Stanton spends several hours each day: He walks up to total strangers in New York City, requests permission to take their pictures and then asks questions so personal they might make Oprah Winfrey blush.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Most people brushed him off. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was very emotionally draining at first,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Stanton said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be really disappointed when people would say no.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Hiking up a leg of his paint-flecked jeans, he showed Mr. Stanton a scar on his calf. The accident, Mr. Lora said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ruined my life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He paused. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m telling you this,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/07\/business\/media\/humans-of-new-york-by-brandon-stanton.html?hp&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times story about the new best-seller,\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>Humans of New York<\/em>,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Brandon Stanton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He walks around New York City and asks strangers to pose for him. STRANGERS. And he does it a lot, and he talks to them, and now he has a best selling book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-933\" alt=\"Google ChromeScreenSnapz001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz001.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 30px;display: inline-block;\"><input id=\"932\" style=\"float: right;max-width: 50px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-advanced-pdf\/asset\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"#TB_inline?height=230&amp;width=400&amp;inlineId=examplePopup1\" title=\"Export pdf to your Email\" class=\"thickbox export-pdf\" type=\"image\" value=\"Export to PDF\" \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how Brandon Stanton spends several hours each day: He walks up to total strangers in New York City, requests permission to take their pictures and then asks questions so personal they might make Oprah Winfrey blush. Most people brushed him off. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was very emotionally draining at first,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Stanton said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}