Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Street Photography debate
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 17:29:22 -0800
 
D Khong wrote:
><Snip> 
> I said that as long as street photography (including candid and some forms
> of documentary photography) captures the essence of life and the heartbeat
> of the environment and does not appear grossly badly taken in terms of say
> horizon, exposure, perspective, it is an artform in itself.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Dan K.
Street photography seems to have changed the rules of painting in the last half
of the century. 
Paintings with tops of heads cut off and more are the norm; this would not have
happened I think anywhere near as fast had not the hand held camera come along.
Mark Rabiner