[Leica] Street Photography

Mark Rabiner mark at rabinergroup.com
Mon Sep 23 00:54:00 PDT 2019


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.



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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 à 21:18, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
    > 
    > 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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