[Leica] Street Photography

[Gerry Walden]

Perfectly put into words Mark!

Gerry

Gerry Walden
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> On 22 Sep 2019, at 23:27, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
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> Problems being if you'd walked up to Robert Frank a few years back and told him he was your favorite "Street" photographer he would look at you with bewilderment.
> He was a fine art photographer, photojournalist and film maker.; Mary Ellen Mark a fine art photographer.
> When we define  them with our trendy buzz words of the moment it doesn’t complement them or their work.
> The default of photography  has always been photographing the human condition. It the past what symbolized that was "the Tenements". Now it's "The Street".
> 
> Big overlap after WWII between the Art photographers and the magazine photographers as most galleries had the magazine photographers work up on their walls.
> Like that Paris Match guy; HCB.
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> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
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> On 9/22/19, 3:18 PM, "LUG on behalf of Don Dory via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
>    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?
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>    -- 
>    Don
>    don.dory at gmail.com
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