Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Karen Nakamura wrote: >> >> call it posing or call it being aware that a photo is going to be >> taken.... boils down to the same thing... >> >> do you want to take photos of the way people are, or the way they want >> to appear... ? > > > Steve - > > So your wonderful OR photos or Tinas photos are all what? > Eugene Smith? James Nachtewey? They all work with the consent of the > photographed. Steve Barbour. Tina Manley. They work to the best that we are able...with consent. And remember ...it's not one shot and off into the night... when I shot in the OR, I spent two full days, about 11-12 hours in the OR, watching, shooting... > You can do documentary photography with the consent and permission of > the photographed without only having to do posed portraiture. shooting with consent means the subject gives you what he wants to give you, and what he wants to be seen... Is that > such a hard concept to comprehend? lets try to keep this on a high plain, no attacks Karen... Steve > > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/ >