Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 11, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > > I wasn't going to post this, because I figured someone else would. > In the 206 comments to Hawk's initial blog post (when I went to it) > one was from someone who proported to be one of the two SFMOMA > employees who escorted the photographer from the premises. He stated > that Mr. Hawk was asked to stop photographing ten times not for > taking photos in the atrium, but for what the employees believed was > perching on a balcony and taking a photograph down a staff members > amply filled blouse. Whether or not this was actually the case (to > the untrained eye a large aperture wide angle lens at the > appropriate angle for capturing a large room can probably look like > a super-telephoto pointed in a strange direction) it sounds like a > reasonable starting point for a flare-up. It also appears from > reading a few of his blog posts that he can be a confrontation > waiting for an event. And the fact that he continued photographing > after being asked to stop ten times suggests to me not that the > atrium of SFMOMA was in such desperate need of being photographed at > that exact moment, but that he was looking for a fight. I havn't been following this thread...was his name Mr Hawk before or after all this? Steve > > > There are photographs that it's a journalists duty to go to the mat > to get. The already well photographed atrium of SFMOMA probably > isn't, IMHO, one of those. > > kc > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information