Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/09

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Subject: [Leica] Nobody cares
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Mar 9 10:24:21 2006

You could pass Flagmom off as a 1958 Robert Frank, but for the clothes, and
stare...I don't know what to say.




On 3/9/06 1:18 PM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Just let the photo speak for itself - if you have to tell us what it is,
>> it's failed as a photograph.
>>  
>> 
>>  
>> 
> 
> B.D.
> 
> An observation that accurate belongs on a T shirt :-)
> 
> Something else, the distance between the shooter and the shootee bothers
> me. I find it difficult to use people as elements in a composition
> rather than approaching them as individuals. When prowling in the guise
> of a "street photographer" there are times when a pleasant confrontation
> elicits better images than sneakiness.
> 
> Walt
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album383/flagmom_ed
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album383/stare
> 
> 
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