Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah, I'd like to chip in. Not quite sure what would be involved.... Street photograhy has always intrigued me, but I can't say that I've done much yet. It's on my list of "things to do." I live in Las Vegas, Nevada, and would love to try some night shots on the street during New Years, but I'm stuck at work this year. That Y2K crap... Les - ----- Original Message ----- From: Johnny Deadman <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk> To: LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; Street Photography <streetphoto@topica.com> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Street photography?:) > on 17/12/99 8:11 pm, Steve LeHuray at icommag@toad.net wrote: > > > But I would like to tell you (and anybody else listening) that > > in the past year I have become VERY passionate about street photography and > > I can promise you all that within the next year will be publishing a book on > > my work. Unlike the New York Times article of a week ago I do not believe > > the genre is dead. In fact I think it is quietly growing. > > Absolutely. The streetphoto list got around 90 subscribers almost instantly. > Some of the work that I've seen is just wonderful. The thing that SP has to > do is get out from under Winogrand and HCB and Frank. And that is hard to > do. It needs to make images that arrest people just as Frank's THE AMERICANS > did all those years ago. > > I feel like writing a founding manifesto of street photography for the new > millenium. Anyone feel like chipping in? > > > -- > Johnny Deadman > > photos: http://www.cinematic.freeserve.co.uk > music: http://www.jukebox.demon.co.uk >