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Subject: [Leica] Re: Lecia Street Photography in the Middle East
From: eboehmjr at gmail.com (Eric Boehm, Jr)
Date: Sat Jul 12 12:29:25 2008
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Alex,

Another thing I would like to say. As a photographer, I am after
STORIES. The older the face the deeper the story. It's as simple as
that. Poverty is photogenic precisely because people who have access
to computers, who go to museums, who buy Leicas are not poor. Also,
for me, photographing inside an air conditioned shopping mall, taking
pictures of the housewife with her kids shopping, or the corpulent
masses consuming electronics, for me leaves me empty. Taking photos of
the known is not what I am after. That is why I do not shoot in
America. For me there is nothing to photograph. Call me crazy, but
that is my view of reality.

Eric Boehm

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Alex <alex@zabrovsky.com> wrote:
> I visited Eric's site and enjoyed the images but that is exactly the 
> feeling
> I got looking at the pictures.
> While the images do convey a mood of Israel, it does only one, probably not
> the most prominent one, kind of niche rather then the whole feeling of
> Israeli life and reality.
> Luckily being Israeli and knowing the inside of local life I can position
> properly Eric's images in my perception of Israeli life, population and
> reality, but for a foreigner, claiming the particular Israeli set to convey
> the general Israeli mood may be obviously somewhat misleading..
> I guess, this is just as Eric saw Israel, the places and locations he was
> able to visit and photograph, which is fine, but it certainly doesn't
> represent the Israel in the whole, perhaps its 20-30%...
>
> Best, Alex
> Israel
>
> Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>
>> Eric,
>> I really enjoyed the photographs, but I would like to ask a question - is
>> Israel a country populated primarily by old people?
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Eric Boehm, Jr <eboehmjr@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Dear Lugites,
>>>
>>> Just set up my website at http://www.streetphotographyisrael.com/.
>>> Would love to get feedback from Leica users interested in street
>>> photography. I have always used film and still do to some extent. When
>>> the digital craze hit some years ago, and anyone could produce a
>>> decent photograph without all the toil in the darkroom, I lost
>>> interest and moved on to other things. Setting up this website however
>>> brought me back to my first love, photography. Does anyone still use
>>> film? Does anyone still shoot with the M6 in any of its versions?
>>>
>>>
>>> Eric W.A. Boehm, PhD
>>> Assistant Professor, Microbiology
>>> Department of Biological Sciences
>>> Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave.
>>> Union, NJ 07083
>>> 908-737-3654
>>> eboehm@kean.edu
>>>
>>> Research Website: http://www.eboehm.com/
>>> Photography Website: http://www.streetphotographyisrael.com/
>>>
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-- 
Eric W.A. Boehm, PhD
Assistant Professor, Microbiology
Department of Biological Sciences
Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave.
Union, NJ 07083
908-737-3654
eboehm@kean.edu

Research Website: http://www.eboehm.com/
Photography Website: http://www.streetphotographyisrael.com/

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