Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a little late to the thread. My basic point is that "Street" photography is essentially capturing humans as they are in mostly public places. We can be overtly political like Robert Frank pointing out uncomfortable truths, we can be artistic in finding everyday art out in the streets and parks like much of HCB's work, we can show the amusing side of life like LLuis's many sign juxtapositions. I think that capturing people in their culture, disarmed from pretensions put on when our subjects know they are being photographed can be some of the most important images for posterity that are taken. Even editorial work such as Mary Ellen Mark and "Indian Circus" truly add to understanding about people in places or situations that most of us will never be. I think that for further discussion we should all look at Johnny Deadman's Pink Headed Bug discussions about Street from what 10 years ago? -- Don don.dory at gmail.com