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Subject: [Leica] Street Photography
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:15:18 +0100
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Why are we getting so hung up on titles, just press the f***ing button!

Gerry

Gerry Walden
023 8046 3076
0797 287 7932

> On 23 Sep 2019, at 09:14, Gerry Walden via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> ?
> Gerry Walden
> 023 8046 3076
> 0797 287 7932
> 
>> On 23 Sep 2019, at 08:54, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>> 
>> A long time contributor to National Geographic he's always been a 
>> photojournalist and that what he does it photojournalism.
>> He's not about to embrace a new job description title or a photo 
>> discprtion title became some kids came up with it yesterday.
>> A young new out photog though just might.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photographer
>> 
>> ?On 9/23/19, 3:00 AM, "LUG on behalf of Philippe via LUG" 
>> <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
>> leica-users.org> wrote:
>> 
>>   Does this guy qualify as ? Street ? ? 
>>   https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/person/william-allard/ 
>> <https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/person/william-allard/>
>> 
>>   Or does our own PJ doc Ted OC refer to himself as street when shooting 
>> doctors at the clinic or horses in the wild?
>> 
>>   In both cases, it is neither street, nor landscape, nor indoors or 
>> outdoors, it is (beautiful) Photography, capital P, IMHO
>> 
>>   Amities
>> 
>>   Philippe
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Le 22 sept. 2019 ? 21:18, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a 
>>> ?crit :
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
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