[Leica] BD PAWS

[csemetko at earthlink.net (Craig Semetko)]

I get the LUG in digest form, and I think this is a first--I agree with 
every word in every post from B.D.! ;))

Seriously, B.D., all your posts on this matter reflect my thoughts 
exactly, and your observations about the academic perspective, IMHO, 
are spot on. Also, Ted and Henning, I thought you had great things to 
say as well, FWIW. I mean, if a person is a "creep" because he takes a 
picture surreptitiously, HCB would've been one creepy dude. And that 
just ain't the case.

Craig


> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:41:29 -0400
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] BD PAWS
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
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> How did we get from shooting scenes in public to pornography? Good 
> Lord.
> And "stealing" photos? Well, at least we know where you're coming from.
>
> And by the way, one can do documentary work without asking for
> permission and without talking to subjects afterwards - depending upon
> what one is documenting. I would politely suggest that you are 
> confusing
> doing anthropological work, or ethnography as you would have it, with
> doing photojournalism, traditional documentary photography, and street
> photography. I can guarantee you that Gary Winnogrand, Lee Friedlander,
> and, for that matter, HCB, didn't go up to their subjects afterward to
> chat them up and get releases. If all photographers had adhered to your
> "high" standards, the world of photography would be a pretty barren
> place. ;-)