Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/28

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Subject: [Leica] How healthy is street photography?
From: lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:35:42 -0400
 
Is street photography dying? I just returned from a major NY area photo show
in a community rife with advertising, commercial and TV photographers. There
were 60 exhibitors, many of them successful photo professionals. Only one
offered what could be called a street photo. There were just three pictures
of people, one in the street photo and the other two reasonably formal
portraits. The rest were carefully arranged landscapes, flowers, and  travel
scenes with studied attention to the rules of composition. There was little
spontaneity and no apparent joy. It looked like the final exam in a photo
school composition class. Everyone was trying to be an ARTIST. How boring
compared to the LUG. Fortunately the wine and cheese were good.

Larry Z
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