Reply at the top:
The best way to preserve our rights as photographers out in the wilds
of the general public is to spend more time out in the public taking
pictures.
In the same way that a photo industry campaign to inform the public
about the rights of us all to take pictures pretty much as we please,
getting our butts out there and taking those pictures will over time
tend to dull the public perception that we are doing anything
subversive.
So, everyone outside today, and shoot your neighbor. And their dog!
Don't forget to make them a print too.
On Feb 27, 2010, at 14:33 , Christine Aguila wrote:
Yep, Ralf's point is well taken! Cheers, Christine
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Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
And what the hell is an "antisocial" positioning of a camera?
I mean: What complete idiocy.
All this goes a long way at explaining what the media have made of us
photographers and our cameras, over the last two decades, and how the
perception of people with cameras has been changed.
Gone are the days when people would be glad to have their photo taken
and that guy with the camera was generally seen as someone nice.
Now, we
are the monsters that are sneaking up to innocent little children to
satisfy our perverted desires while we're not just chasing another
poor
young princesses into a terrible death.
High time the camera industry had a look at the way the tobacco
companies succeded for decades in telling the world for decades what
nice, sociable and generally desirable company smokers were. Shouldn't
be too difficult to run a little image campaign for photographers. But
they'd better hurry. Noone will be buying their big DSLRs anymore,
once
we'll be reduced to take pictures of the flower pots in our living
room... provided no children are in the frame.
Just imagine what HCB, Doisneau, Erwitt or any other of the great old
street photographers would be faced with, nowadays, in the streets of
London, Paris or Washington.
Joseph McAllister
[email protected]
"Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus..."
http://tinyurl.com/ndmfhb
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