Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am thinking about just trekking up to the City (aka San Francisco) as many weekends as I can to do some street style photos... On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // portfolio: <http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/PICS/AnotherCalifornia2> // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]