Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> "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 > Just to weigh in on this topic--photographers have been using large, tripod mounted cameras to shoot Street Photography for 150 years. Meyerowitz is the co-author of the definitive book on Street Photography, 'Bystander' and he has used a Leica M for SP since the early '60s. He started using a tripod mounted 8x10 in the late '60s or early '70s. And there is a picture of Meyerowitz shooting with an 8x10 in Central Park in one of Garry Winogrands street photo books. sl - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html