On Oct 16, 2007, at 9:31 AM, frank theriault wrote: > ... 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. ...
While I agree with the notion that 'street photography' encompasses a great diversity of approaches and styles, there is certainly some criteria by which it is recognizable. HCB didn't just "take pictures" and hope they worked. Read the articles and interviews with him ... he knew was he was trying to do. Street photography, like any other genre of photographic work, has intent behind it, whether conscious or subconscious is not always at the disposal of the photographer to know at the moment of doing. The subject matter is life in public view, expressions of its time and culture. It is documentarian in manner and peculiarly photographic in style ... not "painterly" or "abstract". Rules are for sissies. Seeing with the eye of the masters of the genre is all that matters. ];-) Godfrey -- 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.
