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

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Subject: [Leica] How healthy is street photography?
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:55:49 -0700
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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
> >
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