Shel Belinkoff wrote:
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
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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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