Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:27 PM 4/12/98 +0000, you wrote: >Is that a guarantee by you personally? Here, in NYC, where it's perfectly legal to >photograph a stranger without permission, I know a number of photographers who've >landed in jail for taking photos (albeit after a policeman told them to stop. The police, >however, are not within their power to stop a photographer from photographing a public >scene and were in the wrong in every instance I'm citing). Danny, Isn't it true that this New York hostility towards photographers is in part encouraged by the Mayor (heard this on the NPPA list a while back), and wasn't it recently announced that he has pictures on display at the Leica gallery? Guess he doesn't like competition. :-) ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Those with all of the answers are those who have stopped asking questions.