Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/26

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Subject: [Leica] GeeBee's 'Street' photography
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sat Feb 26 22:04:15 2005
References: <005a01c51c77$3510da30$6401a8c0@ccapr.com>

On 27/02/2005, at 1:51 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> First off, I am neither a teacher in the sense that you are suggesting,
> nor, God forbid, am I part of or reflect of the "academy." And I, too,
> hate blanket statements and, as I made clear in an earlier discussion, 
> I
> think rules are pretty meaningless. But - not every photo shot in the
> street is "street photography" in any meaningful sense. Were it, we'd
> all be Gary Winnogrand. And since that is clearly not the case, start 
> to
> think about what separates the best work of Winnogrand, Gilden - hell,
> Richard Avedon - from every photo shot in the street.

This I can agree with. Rules are made to be broken: when broken by an 
artist the result may be great, when broken by me the result looks like 
a broken rule ;-)

Alastair


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