Re: [Leica] Documentary Photography 2003

[Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>]

George,
What a horrible story: it is something more fearful than the threat of 
terror in some ways, total repression, by "security" gone nuts. I 
recently went to a Circus Oz performance and was delighted to find that 
the posted restriction was to "flash" photography, but even though my 
M6 didn't have a flash, the security explained that it looked like it 
did, and that was enough, BUT at least I was not thrown out, when I 
agreed to stop shooting. Horrible.

Cheers
On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 04:18 Australia/Melbourne, George 
Lottermoser wrote:

> Yesterday I took the afternoon off to see and hear Michelle Shocked 
> perform at 5:30pm at Summerfest in Milwaukee, free admission between 1 
> and 3. While waiting for the concert to start, my Leicas tried to find 
> photographs in the fountain where children played - the sun beginning 
> to set behind them - backlit water - children laughing - lovely to a 
> fault - how to avoid the clichés?


> 	At some point in this 3-hour ordeal I thought, "It’s time to sell all 
> the gear. Documentary Photography has died when you have to rent the 
> cypress tree, and get detained by rent-a-cops for photographing 
> children playing in water in the summer sun set.
>
> Fond regards,
>
> G e o r g e   L o t t e r m o s e r,    imagist™


Alastair

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