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Subject: [Leica] Street Photography
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:14:06 +0100
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> On 23 Sep 2019, at 08:54, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
> A long time contributor to National Geographic he's always been a 
> photojournalist and that what he does it photojournalism.
> He's not about to embrace a new job description title or a photo 
> discprtion title became some kids came up with it yesterday.
> A young new out photog though just might.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
> 
> ?On 9/23/19, 3:00 AM, "LUG on behalf of Philippe via LUG" 
> <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
>    Does this guy qualify as ? Street ? ? 
>    https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/person/william-allard/ 
> <https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/person/william-allard/>
> 
>    Or does our own PJ doc Ted OC refer to himself as street when shooting 
> doctors at the clinic or horses in the wild?
> 
>    In both cases, it is neither street, nor landscape, nor indoors or 
> outdoors, it is (beautiful) Photography, capital P, IMHO
> 
>    Amities
> 
>    Philippe
> 
> 
> 
>> Le 22 sept. 2019 ? 21:18, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a 
>> ?crit :
>> 
>> 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
>> 
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