Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Street photography?:)
From: Johnny Deadman <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:55:20 +0000

on 17/12/99 8:11 pm, Steve LeHuray at icommag@toad.net wrote:

> But I would like to tell you (and anybody else listening) that
> in the past year I have become VERY passionate about street photography and
> I can promise you all that within the next year will be publishing a book on
> my work. Unlike the New York Times article of a week ago I do not believe
> the genre is dead. In fact I think it is quietly growing.

Absolutely. The streetphoto list got around 90 subscribers almost instantly.
Some of the work that I've seen is just wonderful. The thing that SP has to
do is get out from under Winogrand and HCB and Frank. And that is hard to
do. It needs to make images that arrest people just as Frank's THE AMERICANS
did all those years ago.

I feel like writing a founding manifesto of street photography for the new
millenium. Anyone feel like chipping in?


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