Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, indeed, street photography is getting more difficult. Example: When I was just out of college - early 70s - I used to take my (sorry) Nikon gear to a park in a fancy area of the Georgetown neighborhood in D.C. and shoot children playing, often with parents or nanies. After shooting a few rolls of a given child or group of children, I'd approach the adult-in-charged, tell them that I had photos, give them my name and phone number, ask if they'd like to see the photos, and get their name and number. Then I'd get my contacts and call them. Not only did I make what was for me a fair amount of spare change doing this, but I was usually warmly received by the adults - I even ran into a few well-known folks this way. As any of you well know, try this today and the next think you know you'll be a convicted pediophile with Buba for a roomate! What do you do to accomodate the current paranoia - shoot with a taped up M,. and shoot discretely.... :-) At 06:44 AM 4/5/99 +0000, you wrote: >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. >