Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Street Photography debate
From: "Harrison Mcclary" <harrison@mcclary.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:38:43 -0600

> Friends
> 
> During a recent discussion with a friend who takes mainly salon style
> photography, he said that street photography is not artistic photography
> because it breaks too many rules of composition, lighting, etc.

Did you ask him what rules...since I have heard of only one rule in
photography, mainly there are no rules.

Art also...it is a form of expression and not governed by rules but emotion,
I think.

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Harrison McClary
http://www.mcclary.net