On 10/16/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul, > > With all due respect, from your words you simply don't 'get' street > photography. <snip>
Oh dear! Yet another thread on "what is street photography". So, not that anyone cares, but here's my take: I remember Shel (not to pick on Shel, who I love to death, irascible tho' he could be) once chiding me, asking "how many frames did you take of that subject?", then telling me that I should chat and otherwise interact with my "street" subjects, get to know them a bit, make them feel comfortable with me while I shoot. You know what? That worked for Shel. It's worked for many photographers. Sometimes it works for me. Other times I prefer to be a stealthy "fly on the wall". There's no right or wrong for street photography. HCB wanted to be "invisible" to his subjects. He rarely shot more than two frames of one event (that according to his long-time developer) before moving on. That's in direct opposition to someone like Gary Winogrand, who shot rolls and rolls of the same subject. There are no rules. In fact, I think there's no such thing as "street photography". One simply takes photographs. Either they work or they don't. Often they work for some (like this one of Paul's that works for me) but not for others. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
