[Leica] How healthy is street photography?

[benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)]

It is not dying; it is just not as fashionable as it used to be.  If
you look at my post here: http://leica-users.org/v44/msg10139.html
you'll see it is healthy and that new amazing talent is being
uncovered or coming forth all the time.  Gary Stochl's work ranks with
some of the very best street photography there is.  As Mark points
out, street photography is often the province of the serious but
non-professional.  Stochl was almost 60 before he showed his work to
anyone.

Marty

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
>> Is street photography dying? I just returned from a major NY area photo 
>> show
>> in a community rife with advertising, commercial and TV photographers. 
>> There
>> were 60 exhibitors, many of them successful photo professionals. Only one
>> offered what could be called a street photo. There were just three 
>> pictures
>> of people, one in the street photo and the other two reasonably formal
>> portraits. The rest were carefully arranged landscapes, flowers, and 
>> ?travel
>> scenes with studied attention to the rules of composition. There was 
>> little
>> spontaneity and no apparent joy. It looked like the final exam in a photo
>> school composition class. Everyone was trying to be an ARTIST. How boring
>> compared to the LUG. Fortunately the wine and cheese were good.
>>
>> Larry Z
>>
> Could it be that advertising, commercial and TV photographers are not 
> street
> photographers?
> ?The closest you could come to street photography from a professional
> standpoint would be photo journalists and fine art gallery photographers.
> Usually a combination of the two.
> But often just plain amateurs. Some serious ones. A good thing.
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
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