RE: [Leica] As The World Turns

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Good points, Jeffrey. And there are very few places - "national
security" aside - where you can't eventually work out a way to take
photos if your are serious about what you're doing, and have a
legitimate reason for photographing.

I remember a long discussion on this list about the impossibility of
shooting inside Starbucks. Couldn't be done, people said. It's against
corporate policy, they said. Starbucks sucks, they said. Which is why I
challenged one of my students to do a project on a day at Starbucks -
http://web.mit.edu/21w.749/www/Students/aaronmihalik/finalproject/

Starbucks isn't a "cat house," but the principle is the same. ;-)

B. D.


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Subject: RE: [Leica] As The World Turns


Or even in this part of the world. In New Orleans East, there is an 
enclosed parking lot surrounded by apartments in "Little Viet Nam" where

there is a great open market at 6:00 a.m. Saturday mornings. Live ducks
and 
geese, dried fish, whole catfish, and a bunch of stuff I couldn't
identify. 
And lots of people with traditional Vietnamese garb. Not a word of
English 
to be heard. Trouble is, none want their picture taken. I would rather
take 
a picture of an American and have him curse me than take one of a
visitor 
to the country and offend them in some unknown way.

I'm going to try to return with a Vietnamese interpretor sometime in the

future. Part of the problem is no doubt that food is being sold from an 
asphalt parking lot.

Jeffery

At 08:06 PM 1/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Okay, so I did understand it. In other words, someone's interest in 
>taking a photo justifies intentionally violating religious strictures, 
>or custom, in a foreign country? Forget camel dung in your face. Forget

>the possibility of being arrested. What happened to basic human 
>decency?
>
>No wonder Americans are so 'beloved' in certain parts of the world 
>these days.
>
>B. D.

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