Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Leica Users digest wrote: > [WPost article that "decisive moment photography" has fallen > by the wayside] > <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31924-2003Oct28.html> To be blunt, what I call "stunned-mullet" photography is relatively easy to do - hence its popularity amongst lazy BFAs. They don't want to admit this of course, so they dress it up with layers of waffle and noise: "engaging with the subject"; "directness of approach"; "willing cooperation"; (insert favourite Artschool epithet here...). The main reason I think the "old-fashioned, Leica-toting image hunter" has become such a rare species today is that potential photo-subjects (in the west) have become really - - really - hostile towards candid photographers. Even the briefest search of the LUG archives will confirm this. :?/ So what's a photographer to do? Bite the bullet and shoot regardless? Or slink away into the shadows and do stuffed-and-mounted shots. Guess which option is easier for your average Artschool graduate?... Regds, Andrew N. nemeng.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html