Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I read a number of interviews with him over the last year and he says several times that when he started using the 8x10 for his Cape pictures he adapted his street photography technique to it and basically carried it everywhere, the shops, parties, filling up at the gas station, and shot accordingly. He basically saw it as using an 8x10 for street photography - which obviously gives very different results due to it's size and being a little slower to use, and the results you get due to the film size itself etc. And obviously he also went other directions with it too. His shot of a girl standing still at a Cape Cod summer party is, to me, great "street photography" with an 8x10 (remember, much of Martin Parr's street photography is done in 6x9 and a number of luggers are doing 4x5 street photography with rangefinder Super Graphics (we can't afford Linhofs after what we have already spent on Leicas!!) Tim A PS - I also did some 8x10 "street photography" this summer. It's not so much the camera is big or slowish to use - that was no problem. It's just that the Dorff weighs so damned much and my shoulder hurt like hell! Akin to being lumbered with carrying a mortar base plate, but I was a lot younger then... > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen > Sent: October 25, 2001 11:45 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Joel Meyerowitz at Ground Zero with 8x10 Deardorff > > > 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. > > Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > > "B. D. Colen" wrote: > > > > > > I may be really missing something, but if I'm not mistaken, the point > > > was that Meyerowitz, who is using an 8x10 camera for his WTC project, > > > and who uses one for other color, scenic, work, also does > street shooting > > > - not that he does street shooting with an 8x10. No? > > > > > Not quite following you BD he is using the 8x10 for street > shooting is he not? > > The concept of using an 8x10 for street shooting would be > considered so unlikely > > impossible unwieldy ... that it would not even be considered by > some of our dear > > departed illustrious Lugnuts of lug wars gone by. NOt worth > looking down ones > > nose at. > > > > Your point I'm seeing now is the versatility of the 8x10 > camera. View cameras on > > tripods I'd stretch that out to. And you wont get any argument > from me ON THAT ONE. > > > > But i think half of it is the tripod. > > It positions you as part of the landscape. You become a > structure. A solid > > entity not sneaking around. A non duplicitous denomination. > You are invisible > > because you mean direct business. > > Or much more so than you would be if one tried to sneak around > with 35mm cameras > > therefore putting all eyes on you IN ANY situation. > > Not YOU personally but MOST and in general. The technique > unless done by a master. > > > > Tripod shooting is under rated. > > > > Who's the Bach of photography? Atget! > > > > Mark Rabiner > > > > Portland, Oregon > > USA > > > > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html