[Leica] Street Photography

[richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

I think it's because a few years ago, for some reasons, "street
photography" became an "in thing". Certain bloggers probably had something
to do with it.

Thankfully we are mostly over that phase now.

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 1:15 AM Gerry Walden via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Why are we getting so hung up on titles, just press the f***ing button!
>
> Gerry
>
> Gerry Walden
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> > 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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