Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Asking permission, KISS & the decisive moment
From: Tim Atherton <timatherton@theedge.ca>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:25:28 -0600

> B.D. Colen writes:
> 
> 
> > Allow me to suggest a change of focal point....Isn't the real 
> question here
> > 'why are we shooting strangers on the street and in public places?
> 
> > So the question then, might be 'why am I taking this photo?'

For teh same reasons many writers of fiction and non-fiction (say 
Whites "The Flanneur" write descriptively about the people they observe 
on the street, in resteraunts etc. It's intriguing

tim

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