Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/19

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Subject: [Leica] Beware HCB Wannabes
From: passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:03:24 -0400
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Sonny -- look at the shots: he's not making people uncomfortable and then
shooting them; he's making other people uncomfortable by being there taking
pictures at all. The people he's shooting look all kinds of ways but none is
snarling at the camera in the manner of JD Salinger the day the boys from
the NY Post jumped out in front of him from their van in Hanover or whatever
the NH town was.  So I'm talking about the big "them", the burghers and
merchants and police; the "citizens" as William Burroughs put it. What I was
essentially saying was: Since they're after him now, I'm on his side and I'm
sure he's on the right track. It's a romantic kneejerk bohemianism in many
ways but, in this age of zero counterculture, it beats all the alternative
points of view I can see to choose from.




On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Vince said
>
>  The more they feel discomfort from you the better the
>
> > chance you're doing something right.
> >>
> >
> But if you are affecting the shot by your behavior, isn't that just  the
> same as altering it in Photoshop?
>
> Seems to me you are no longer showing, but now intruding.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Beware HCB Wannabes)
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