Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Which street?
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 09:59:36 -0800

Ruralmopics@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 11/3/99 10:30:22 PM, deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk writes:
> 
> >Any street with life on it will do. Often the picturesque streets are the
> >
> >least interesting. Wrinkled old men, sunbaked doorways, bah! Give me a
> >bit
> >of sixties brutalism and nineties ennui anyday.
> 
> Who was the guy back in the 70s that did the photo story/book on suburbia?
> That was street photography, wasn't it?
> 
The tricycle in the drive way? That was William Estleman? something like that. A
guy discovered by John Szarcowski of the Meuserm of Modern Art. A huge influence
then on most of us up and coming photographers in Portland although he shot in
color and was from the South.
Mark Rabiner