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Subject: [Leica] How healthy is street photography? ... How about car photography? [IMGs]
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:54:39 +0200
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I once (in Zurich, I think) saw an entire photo exhibition of images shot 
from a moving car. Not bad at all.

Cheers,
Nathan

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On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Vince Passaro wrote:

> Now that I've moved to the suburbs after 35 years in NYC I'm discovering a
> new genre (for me): car photography. I really enjoy it. It's totally
> dangerous of course but i try to be smart, you know, within the boundaries
> of being stupid. I miss having streets on which to do street photography.
> 
> Here are some car images though:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/toast+eatin_+bog+man/car+photography/
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:52 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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Replies: Reply from mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist) ([Leica] How healthy is street photography? ... How about car photography? [IMGs])
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