Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Getting Close and Discreet
From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 06:44:14 +0000

snip

> And in former
>times Robert Capa already said: If the picture isnīt good, you wasnīt
>close enough. 


I wonder if that statement refers to photojournalism i.e. pictures of
people and events.  Robert Capa worked in an era when it was probably not
so objectionable to stick a lens up peoples' faces and snap their pictures.
 We are now living at an age when privacy, individual rights, copyrights,
and other what-have-you rights threatens a red nose for those who profess
freedom of expression, and other similar blah blahs.

How many of us feel that it is now getting more difficult to even take
street photographs without arousing suspicion, fear, anger, or even threat
of bodily harm from the subjects?   What are your ways of overcoming these
barriers?

Dan K.