[Leica] Street Photography

[Mark Rabiner]

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.

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 9/24/19, 1:04 AM, "LUG on behalf of Ted Grant via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    Hi PHILIPPE,
    merci!
    To try and answer your question? Here are some names that have been used on me as what I was doing with a camera in my hands or position I was holding during my life time with cameras.
    NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER
    PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER
    COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHER
    WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER(the money was good! I HATED IT! EVERY COTTON PICK-IN ONE OF THEM!
    PHOTOJOURNALIST
    PRIME MINISTER'S PHOTOGRAPHER.
    OH AND A FEW OF OTHER TYPES UN-PRINTABLE! :-)
    cheers,
    Dr.ted grant O.C.
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Philippe via LUG
    Sent: September-23-19 12:01 AM
    To: Leica Users Group
    Cc: Philippe
    Subject: Re: [Leica] Street Photography
    
    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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