Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doisneau : ? photographe ind?pendant ? (from his oficial site). HCB? ? photographe ? , period (from the site of his foundation) Blah-blah you?re right. Amities Philippe > Le 24 sept. 2019 ? 15:02, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit : > > What a lot of guff is swilling around about this term. Pulling a book down > from my shelf, I see "What distinguishes Doisneau's street photography of > the 1940s and 1950s is a capacity for narrative" blah, blah. This comes > from the 1997 Phaidon "The Photo Book". So that puts it at least 22 years > old. I rather suspect the term may be a lot older, but who cares. English > is an embracing and mutable tongue, and who can count the number of > photography terms and movements out there? > > Douglas > > > On 24/09/2019 06:33, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> My two cents if the "Street Photography" term using phenomenon just >> admitted what it was instead of insinuating that it's been this ongoing >> longtime thing that everyone has always known about it but you were not >> paying attention it would not be so bad. I have nothing much against >> sometimes using a buzz word of the moment or click bait or weasel words >> which pretend to mean something but which are just messing with you. >> But the "Street" thing doesn't own up to it. I think many of them just >> want to feel a connect with the college kids who are just flipping off >> knowing anything about the art world or journalism and just want to walk >> around taking pictures and somehow be meaningful... rebellious. >> >> But I think there are two main categories in photography which overlap a >> lot: >> Job titles and genres. >> The Job titles describe you and the genres describe your photographs. >> If you are showing somebody a landscape it's a Landscape. That?s the >> Genre your image is part of. >> If it?s a big part of what you always do you can say you are a Landscape >> photographer and have it on your business card.. And when people see your >> images they might believe you. >> The Yellow Pages had two categories for photography. Doctors only got one >> and Lawyers only got one. >> Commercial and Portrait. >> If you were a landscape photographer I think that fit into neither >> Commercial nor Portrait.. >> Landscape it think is a sub category of Art Photography. The Gallery >> market. Art Collectors. >> And you could not even look those up Art Photography in the Yellow Pages. >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information