[Leica] RE: Street Photography debate

[D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>]

Friends

During a recent discussion with a friend who takes mainly salon style
photography, he said that street photography is not artistic photography
because it breaks too many rules of composition, lighting, etc.

I said that as long as street photography (including candid and some forms
of documentary photography) captures the essence of life and the heartbeat
of the environment and does not appear grossly badly taken in terms of say
horizon, exposure, perspective, it is an artform in itself.

Any comments?

Dan K.
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