Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Franck, or should we say Mnsr Capitaine? ;-) I enjoyed several of the pictures, I think my favourite was the picture of the frame through which we saw a couple inside a shop? It has the ambiguity of wondering whether we are looking at a mirror and seeing a reflection, but eventually we can read the rest of the interior from the surroundings and get our bearings. The syntax with the genuine mirror shot would make that a fun pairing. Let me congratulate you for taking up street photography and the picturing of people, a most challenging and brave thing to do and fully coincident with the genre of Leica photography. Though the street photos leave me feeling mostly that these have been grabbed shots which are not quite brave enough. We do not see enough close eye contact. When we are close to people we see that they are obviously unaware of the camera because their face is missing or looking away or in another direction, this has the effect of diminishing a conncetion betweeen the viewer and the subject. But having said that you have created a body of work and displayed it, that in itself is admirable and to be applauded, well done. When I eventually put up my work on the internet, I hope you will be frank with me! best regards, Jem - -----Original Message----- From: capitaine francky [SMTP:francky@fluid.claranet.fr] Sent: 15 December 1999 02:37 To: leica Subject: [Leica] franck street pictures Hello, i'm a french photograph , i' have a new site to show some of my "street" BW pictures http://home.claranet.fr/fluid/home.html the site is in french (soon in english) but photography is an international language, i'll be nice to have luggers comment... - -- Franck Lequeux-Capellot Paris-France << File: ATT00002.html >>