Environmental Imagery ... actually, there's a term that's bantered about - Environmental Portraiture - that is used to describe portraits taken in informal, outdoors setting.
BTW, here's some real "street" photography: http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/images/sidewalk.html It's even made with a Leica <LOL> frank theriault wrote: > > 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 > > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist > fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer > > >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 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines
