[Leica] Modern Times Kid's street games (A tribute to Sabine Weiss)

[Don Dory]

I am not so sure.  Much to my wife's dismay I frequently photograph
children on the street.  Children are mostly still children in their
exploration of the world.  They also have screens which I believe are
barely a net gain.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 6:21 AM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Peter,
>
> On Instagram there are several short videos in which Sabine Weiss
> expresses very well the different street life today, just as she says there
> were not all the things that children have now, so the street was the place
> to meet and play, even today I perceive a big difference between the
> pictures I took in the 90s, even early 2000s and now, and as you very well
> say, leaving aside the privacy issues.
> Sabine Weiss says that recently at the Gare du Nord in Paris she saw a
> little girl with a sad attitude leaning on a railing, took out her little
> digital camera and took a picture. She was approached by some men who told
> her that if it wasn't for the fact that she was a senior citizen they would
> smash her face in.
> This is the world we live in, Ramon Massats a great Catalan photographer
> said it a long time ago, to take pictures of children you have to go to the
> "Third World”.
> Lluis
>
>
> > El 15 nov 2021, a les 12:07, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> va
> escriure:
> >
> > Yes, there's a big difference between now and then. Street photographs
> > today show something very different from life as it was then. But we
> > have moved on and changed our way of life. In many big cities you simply
> > wouldn't let your kids play outside in the way that I and I suspect many
> > other LUGgers did.
> >
> > There's even a perceptible difference between the images that you took
> > in the 90s and those that you take today, even those that are less
> > digitally-orientated than this one.
> >
> > And that's before we get into issues of privacy and so on.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > PS I hope Sabine appreciates it!
> >
> >
> > On 12/11/2021 18:43, Lluis Ripoll via LUG wrote:
> >> I took it thinking about the words that Sabine Weiss usually says, she
> says that with the evolution we have lost the street life that was in the
> 50's and 60's, as you say it is a contribution to show the change that I
> feel satisfied with.
> >>
> >> Thanks so much Don
> >> Lluis
> >>
> >>
> >>> El 12 nov 2021, a les 15:13, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> va escriure:
> >>>
> >>> A solid addition to your record of street life through the years.
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 6:37 AM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
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> >>>> Lluis
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Don
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