[Leica] How healthy is street photography?

[jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

I sense that there are fewer fans of street photography, but I cannot say 
why. The Street Photography forum seemed to go from B&W film to color 
digital about 7-8 years ago (when digital became completely usable), and the 
division between street photography and other genres seems to have become 
fuzzy as a result. Lluis's photos seem to still be squarely in the genre of 
street photography. And I see less of this every day. Some of the street 
photography adherents on the LUG seem to have drifted away, and some have 
died. Steve LeHuray really lived and breathed street photography with a 
Leica M that made Garry Winogrand's M4 seem "minty" (ebay term) by 
comparison. Maybe the SPers are a dying breed. After last week's heated 
discussion of about 100 posts on SP, I hope nobody was scared off.

I want to get back into Lluis mode soon.

Jeffery


On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> 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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