Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Perfectly put into words Mark! Gerry Gerry Walden 023 8046 3076 0797 287 7932 > On 22 Sep 2019, at 23:27, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > Problems being if you'd walked up to Robert Frank a few years back and > told him he was your favorite "Street" photographer he would look at you > with bewilderment. > He was a fine art photographer, photojournalist and film maker.; Mary > Ellen Mark a fine art photographer. > When we define them with our trendy buzz words of the moment it doesn?t > complement them or their work. > The default of photography has always been photographing the human > condition. It the past what symbolized that was "the Tenements". Now it's > "The Street". > > Big overlap after WWII between the Art photographers and the magazine > photographers as most galleries had the magazine photographers work up on > their walls. > Like that Paris Match guy; HCB. > > > > > -- > > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > > ?On 9/22/19, 3:18 PM, "LUG on behalf of Don Dory via LUG" > <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > This is a little late to the thread. My basic point is that "Street" > photography is essentially capturing humans as they are in mostly public > places. We can be overtly political like Robert Frank pointing out > uncomfortable truths, we can be artistic in finding everyday art out in > the streets and parks like much of HCB's work, we can show the amusing > side > of life like LLuis's many sign juxtapositions. > > I think that capturing people in their culture, disarmed from > pretensions > put on when our subjects know they are being photographed can be some of > the most important images for posterity that are taken. Even editorial > work such as Mary Ellen Mark and "Indian Circus" truly add to > understanding > about people in places or situations that most of us will never be. > > I think that for further discussion we should all look at Johnny > Deadman's > Pink Headed Bug discussions about Street from what 10 years ago? > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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