Don't hold back, now. Tell us what you ~really~ think!! <vbg>
But, seriously, since I do walk the streets with my camera, and take photographs whilst doing so, how should I describe it?
I don't describe myself as a Street Photographer, but that's because I'd prefer not to limit myself - and it does sound awfully pompous. However, when asked what type of photography I do, I'll often mention "street photography" as something I think I'm not bad at.
I'm not trying to be politically correct or anything (why start now? <g>), but does anyone have any ideas? "Urban photography?" Nah, that sounds just as bad...
cheers, frank
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From: Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Semi OT-Street Photography survey Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:51:24 +0100
Hi,
> ...street photography (God, do I hate that term > and description!) ...
Hooray! Yes, I hate it too. It carries such a lot of baggage: inverse
snobbery, political correctness, self-satisfied superiority, self-regarding
capital-A artiness, "I suffer for the truth" undergraduate bullshit,
with a pathetic claim of imagined bravery in the face of pretend
danger, practiced mostly by posers enthralled by their own off-the-peg image
of urban grit.
And it's not just the term.
Most 'street photography' is itself pointless, exploitative, vacuous crap masquerading as insight and concern, but hiding a boundless vapidity. Its pompous, pseudo-profundity is chaff thrown out to hide the true depths of its shallowness.
Present company excepted, of course.
I also hate the term 'travel photography', for some of the same reasons, then a few others on top.
What other photographic terms do people hate? Don't hold back now!
-- Cheers, Bob
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