Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The Panhandler...
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:42:00 -0700

On 8/11/03 knarf.theriault@sympatico.ca (frank theriault) thoughtfully wrote: 

>
>As for the photo itself, I rather cringed when I saw the title.  Oh, no,
>thinks I, another shot of some poor person, asking for money.  It's so
>difficult to capture such street people without exploiting them.
>

Excuse me? Street photography exploits EVERYONE who is a subject. Street people,
the wealthy, everyone. They are perfectly good subjects for this kind of
photography, as good as any other subject.

Adam Bridge
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