Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Joel Meyerowitz at Ground Zero with 8x10 Deardorff
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:11:04 -0700
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"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> No! No! No! :-) My point is that I DON'T think he is using an 8x10 for
> street shooting, but is using an 8x10 for his WTC Pompeii project, uses
> one for projects such as Cape Light, but uses 35 for street
> shooting...but I may be wrong....Whether he does it or not, I, like the
> LUGers to whom you refer, would consider using a view camera more than a
> little absurd for street shooting, unless one were literally shooting
> the "street-" Say setting up in Times Square at night and recording the
> passing throng with a time exposure.
> 
> B. D.
> 
Well next time you go out and set up a view camera on the sidewalk and get
street shots come home and tell us about it. I think you'll be gushing.

Every time I've done it I've found it very obvious and energetic. I never feel
not more invisible but part of the street scene in just the right way. Accepted
as a photographer doing his photography.
It's very doable and Joel is certainly doing it. Often it's you let the action
come to you or you wait for the next thing to happen in front of you. I'm very
OK with that.
Meyerowitz has got an edge because the technique is widely dismissed as unpermissible.
I find that just wierd.



Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon
USA

http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/
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