Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For me the "best" street photography goes beyond simply photographing anything and everything which happens in the streets. It seems to me that "street photography" has become diluted with hundreds of thousands snapshots which do not "go beyond." Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Jeffery Smith 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