Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On May 4, 2015, at 6:38 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Thanks George you may just have underestimated me as I'm fully capable of > Google/Binging "Street photography" all by my self and certainly you'd > think > would have done so. I am aware it is a buzzword which has fully and > saturated itself into the current vernacular. That is very much my issue > with it. > > Photographers were long photographing the human condition before this > Neologism kicked in which trendy people started using and ascribing the > whole thing to these old timers who got along fine with the old tired terms > like documentary photography and candid photography and news photography > and > photojournalism and people who took a tour of the neighborhood with the > cameras taking pictures of every thing and every body who didn't need any > trendy labels telling them what they were doing. Pardon me Mark. No offense intended here. I was simply pointing to relevant books specifically. and more specifically with publishers like Aperture and museums doing shows vernacular or not like it or not it has taken on a "serious" definition within the serious photographic publishing and museum world Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist