I wonder if asking for a release could create additional problems; once someone has refused to sign you have an explicit lack of consent for the photograph to be used. Once you ask, might not you be more committed to ceding to the subject's wishes. In any event, unless someone does relatively static 'street portraits' I have a hard time imagining a way of even approaching most subjects of a streetphoto: do you run after a passerby or interupt their conversation? There are times when such photographs include a number of unrelated people moving off in all directions; do you hire crews to run after then with explanations? It would seem that having to get releases would just make classic street photography impossible, so if you are committed to do this type of work you have to take your chances. Does anyone know a case where there has been a successful suit against a published or exhibited streetphotograher on privacy grounds? For what it's worth even Rudolph Giuliani of NY, nor famous for his love of free expressions but a himself a shutterbug, once was quoted that there is a right to photograph anyone one wants in public places. John M.
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street Johnny Deadman
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the stree... Douglas Landrum
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the s... Arthur Entlich
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on t... Jeffrey Goggin
- RE: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the stree... Laurie Solomon
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the s... Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the s... Johnny Deadman
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street Lynn Allen
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the stree... Terry Carroll
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street Lynn Allen
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the stree... John Matturri
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the s... Johnny Deadman
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on t... John Matturri
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on t... Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
- RE: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the s... Laurie Solomon
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the stree... Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the s... Johnny Deadman
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on t... Daniel Bowdoin
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the street Lynn Allen
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the stree... Johnny Deadman
- Re: filmscanners: OT: photographing on the s... John Matturri