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Subject: [Leica] Street Photography
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:26:56 +0200
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Doisneau : ? photographe ind?pendant ? (from his oficial site).
HCB? ? photographe ? , period (from the site of his foundation)

Blah-blah you?re right.

Amities

Philippe



> Le 24 sept. 2019 ? 15:02, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit :
> 
> What a lot of guff is swilling around about this term. Pulling a book down 
> from my shelf, I see "What distinguishes Doisneau's street photography of 
> the 1940s and 1950s is a capacity for narrative" blah, blah. This comes 
> from the 1997 Phaidon "The Photo Book". So that puts it at least 22 years 
> old. I rather suspect the term may be a lot older, but who cares. English 
> is an embracing and mutable tongue, and who can count the number of 
> photography terms and movements out there?
> 
> Douglas
> 
> 
> On 24/09/2019 06:33, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> My two cents if the "Street Photography" term using phenomenon just 
>> admitted what it was instead of insinuating that it's been this ongoing 
>> longtime thing that everyone has always known about it but you were not 
>> paying attention it would not be so bad. I have nothing much against 
>> sometimes using a buzz word of the moment or click bait or weasel words 
>> which pretend to mean something but which are just messing with you.
>> But the "Street" thing doesn't own up to it. I think many of them just 
>> want to feel a connect with the college kids who are just flipping off 
>> knowing anything about the art world or journalism and just want to walk 
>> around taking pictures and somehow be meaningful... rebellious.
>> 
>> But I think there are two main categories in photography which overlap a 
>> lot:
>> Job titles and genres.
>> The Job titles describe you and the genres describe your photographs.
>> If you are showing somebody a landscape it's a Landscape. That?s the 
>> Genre your image is part of.
>>  If it?s a big part of what you always do you can say you are a Landscape 
>> photographer and have it on your business card.. And when people see your 
>> images they might believe you.
>> The Yellow Pages had two categories for photography. Doctors only got one 
>> and Lawyers only got one.
>> Commercial and Portrait.
>> If you were a landscape photographer I think that fit into neither 
>> Commercial nor Portrait..
>> Landscape it think is a sub category of Art Photography. The Gallery 
>> market. Art Collectors.
>> And you could not even look those up Art Photography in the Yellow Pages.
>> 
>>    
> 
> 
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