[Leica] SFMOMA incident

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Geesh, Kyle, she wasn't on duty when I was there or, who knows, I
might have been tossed out as well!...

...no, I don't think so least SWMBO would be having a "word" with me
and adjusting my attitude with something from a kitchen drawer (if I
were lucky) or my tool box (if I wasn't).

Thank you for the update.

Adam - who can't make himself wade through all those comments.....

ab

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> 
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.
>
> 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
>
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