[Leica] Re: Getting Close and Discreet

[Michael Hintlian <MichaelHintlian@compuserve.com>]

Dan;

When was it easy?  In many ways, its the photographers' own internal
suspicions, fears, anger that makes street work hard.  Its never been easy,
and I doubt it ever will be.  About overcoming it....just work every day,
that will help.  

And about the Robert Capa line.  I have always thought it had two
intentions.  The first is physical closeness, the second emotional.  Along
similar lines, Larry Towell wrote in a recent piece about his work
concerning his need for "taking sides".  Its that emotional connection and
point of view that is the avenue to powerful imagemaking.  That, I think,
is what Capa was getting at.

Michael

<<>How many of us feel that it is now getting more difficult to even take
>street photographs without arousing suspicion, fear, anger, or even threat
>of bodily harm from the subjects?   What are your ways of overcoming these
>barriers?
>
>Dan K.>>