Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You agree that the more obnoxious the photographer, the better the photographer, as long as he's doing whatever he wants? Cool. On Mar 18, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Vince Passaro wrote: > I agree with Rabs. Of course. And a further thought: I remember one day not > long ago -- within the last decade that means, to us oldies -- seeing a > photographer with a Leica 35mm camera on Fifth Ave near the corner of 57th > or 58th St I think (possibley a few blocks osouth of there) standing in the > flow of the crowd just whirling right and left and all the way around > taking > pictures of people only .7 meters from their faces in many cases, or > sometimes a bit further. He was like a dervish: to watch him was to see a > man who was completely lost in what he was doing, the faces in the crowd, > images momentarily clarified within a blur, him catching them probably not > in full focus most of hte time, taking pictures (and manually advancing the > film) as fast as I've ever seen anyone with that kind of equipment work. I > deeply admired him. He looked insane. He was frightening people. Some > people, that is. It was New York after all and many just made their way > around him and kept on without a backward glance. > > Here's a very short, famous, Eastern-ish poem for street photographer's > everywhere. The title is "In a Station of the Metro" - it's only two lines > long: > > The apparition of these faces in a crowd; > Petals on a wet black bough. > > it's like a Capa picture double exposed onto an Ansel Adams.... > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >>> I think the size of his cannon...er....Canon..is what is making him so >>> conspicuous and is what is unnerving his subjects. My reference to the >> Leica >>> RF is not so he can be like HCB, but so he might be less conspicuous. >> Robert >>> Capa's Contax would be fine too. Using a big SLR with a telephoto to get >>> pictures of young ladies is paparazzi-ish, not streetphotography-ish. >>> >>> Jeffery >> >> >> I think he can set up an 8x10 view camera if he feels like it if he's not >> blocking the sidewalk too much. >> >> [Rabs] >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information