Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]HOLD IT!!! Are you suggesting for even a nanosecond that Diane Arbus took stand-up straight anything? Good Lord, Andrew, if ever there was a photographer with a skewed view of life who skewed the appearance of her subjects, it was Ms. Arbus. Now - scream among yourselves. :-) -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Nemeth Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:47 PM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] Re: Photojournalists and permission On 21/04/2005, at 5:18 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > In 1929, very soon after Leica was born, Leica began producing > right-angle finders so that photographers could look elsewhere but > point their lens at the subject. Production of improved versions of > this device continued for 10 years and are still being used today. Indeed, I use one still, on both the Leica Ms and a Hasselblad 501c/m. It's called an AUFSU and is IMO a much more usable viewer than the Zeiss equivalents. I cover these things in detail in the Leica FAQ I maintain at: <http://nemeng.com/leica/027b.shtml> > The fact that Eugene Smith, HCB or Weegee did whatever they did a very > long time ago is --today -- irrelevant. Agreed. > The fact that your picture , after getting permission, might looked > posed > is irrelevant. Depends what your aims are, but if you want to take candid, unposed, unstaged images of people as they go about their daily lives, without any meddling, then clearly this _is_ an issue! Not everyone wants to ape Diane Arbus (or Loretta Lux) and crank out stand-up-straight tableaux you know :?) Regards, Andrew Nemeth <http://unposed.4020.net> _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information