Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:21 PM 7/24/2009, you wrote: >999 guys on the list. >1 gal >Lets wise up. > >Mark William Rabiner O.K. as the one gal I guess I have to speak up. Street photography, to me, should be what's visible on the street if you were a fly on the wall. I don't want to be noticed. No acknowledgement of the photographer and no permission obtained ahead of time. That's not documentary photography if the subject is posing for photos. For street photography or documentary photography (I confess, I'm not sure what the difference should be.), the photographer should be invisible and unacknowledged. As far as the Senorita type photos, they do absolutely nothing for me but I understand that some of you like them (999 of you anyway). ;-) I usually skip over them unless there is a chorus of admiration and then I'll check in and usually find sexy boobs or lots of skin and I'll forward them to my husband who also enjoys those photos. Most of the gals who are exposing all of that skin are doing it to be noticed so it doesn't bother me at all that you are photographing them and showing them. If they are appearing in public that way, they are asking to be noticed. I don't think "cheesecake" type photos are great art, but YMMV! ;-) Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com