Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 31/7/00 10:32 am, John Collier at jbcollier@home.com wrote: > Just a quick note to say that I do not believe the Kennedy family would > agree. :-) Perhaps not really "street photography" by a traditional > definition but photography on the streets none the less. Pardon my language, and note that in what follows I address the argument not the poster, of whom I know less than nothing, but that's the kind of lo-cal fibre free bullshit barstool argument that does no-one any favours. Equating gross press intrusion for commercial purposes (selling to Nat. Enquirer or whatever) with what is essentially a non-profit (ask any street photographer) artistic endeavor is purposefully confusing two entirely separate issues. Most SPs have a pretty well worked out internal moral code about what they do. Very few will continue to shoot an ordinary member of the public (ie who does not have bodyguards and millions in the bank) who has expressed the wish NOT to be photographed: to do so is stupid and rude and dangerous and has nothing to do with what SP is all about. Anyone who photographed as an SP ... moving among people in the streets... in the way that the press photographed the Kennedys would have their nose broken within the first hour. And they would deserve it. Sheesh. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com