Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 20, 2010, at 12:51 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > Jeffery you take me back to my days of teaching at Columbia College > Chicago. > Damn. I miss the classroom a whole lot. I loved interacting with those > kids. > They taught me every bit or more than I could offer them > (with a few exceptions in both directions). > > Your points about privacy in the class room are of course well taken. > The same holds true for any number of other private venues. > > Yet documentary work on the public streets remains a different case > entirely. > We'd assume that most people have prepared themselves to "be seen" in > public; > if not also photographed. And so far, for the moment, we still have the > right to document > public life; and I believe also work to preserve that right; with or > without press credentials. People in public, are seen in public and videotaped in public many thousands of times every day, without their permission. What is different about having a still photo shot? If for any reason they are that precarious about being seen and photographed without permission, they best stay at home, Steve... > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > On Mar 20, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > >> They also don't have a heads-up and some don't have their finest makeup >> on. But some are truly camera-averse. I have several shots of the top of >> someone's head. They didn't want the front of their head photographed (so >> I learned their names by the tops of their heads). >> >> And some of the students may have outstanding warrants or illegal >> activity in their lives. I have had several prostitutes in my past >> classes, and they weren't the high class escort variety. One or more of >> my students has had to drop due to incarceration every year. My three >> valid reasons for a student missing a string of classes are (1) >> hospitalization, (2) active military duty, and (3) being in jail. Drugs, >> prostitution, bad checks, etc. are not uncommon in big cities with >> economic woes. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information