Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, You are right, many events, many shooters on the streets and it is difficult say something Cheers Lluis El 30/03/2010, a las 19:43, George Lottermoser escribi?: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information