Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/18

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Subject: [Leica] More from the glorious days in Barcelona
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:33:04 -0400
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I have never understood the "in your face, flash" kind of street
photography.  I think photographers should strive to be a fly on the wall
and photograph the scene without intruding themselves or their personality
which would totally change whatever the scene might have been.  Lluis does
a great job of observing without being observed!

Tina

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> The documentary I saw on James Nachtwey made me think that he was about as
> subtle as a photographer could be with a huge dSLR and gunfire all around
> him. His "dress code" is pretty subtle.
>
> We had a somewhat contentious thread a few years ago after a photographer
> was told to stop photographing people on his lunch hour using a big dSLR
> and big zoom lens. My recollection was that he really conducted himself in
> an "in your face" fashion that made his subjects angry. I sort of agreed
> that a street photographer should not be "disturbing the peace", but others
> were not in agreement with me.
>
> If someone can disturb the peace with a Leica RF, or a Fuji X100, then
> he/she's way too obnoxious to be a street photographer. Luis looks and
> behaves like a gentilhombre, and that surely helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeffery
> _________________
> Jeffery Smith
> Irish Channel, New Orleans, LA
> www.400tx.com
>
>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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