Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Shawn London wrote: <<<Oh, I see. Henri Cartier-Bresson was an animal because he shot close. And tabloid photos shot through windows and out of trees from a block away are automatically less offensive because the photographer didn't irritate the subject at the time? >>>>>> No! No! me old son, You either have not tried to work in the rat pack as some of us in here have and have to, or you wouldn't have made the above post! We are __not__ talking about the HCB kind of quiet shooting (most of his subjects never knew he was shooting) or the guy working with a 1200mm from a block away, (yes they are offensive in some circumstances). We are referring to the "20mm jam it in the face of the subject" from 2 feet away or less! and make that a dozen rat pack guys all at the same time. It is this kind of action and the way some of them dress looking like they were shot out of a cannon sideways with a keg of nails, that pulls down the image and reputation of a "news photographer"! And does absolutely nothing for the respect factor! Ted, (fighting the rat pack animal image all the time)