Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Which street?
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 21:55:09 -0800

At 7:28 PM +0000 11/3/99, Johnny Deadman wrote:
>Any street with life on it will do. Often the picturesque streets are the
>least interesting. Wrinkled old men, sunbaked doorways, bah! Give me a bit
>of sixties brutalism and nineties ennui anyday.
>
>I used to think that street photography in London was impossible, because
>there was no street life, but over the last 10 years that has changed... it
>has become a much more street oriented city. Bill Klein, Frank, Bresson,
>Meyerowitz, they all came to London and struggled to find pictures. I think
>they'd have a ball now. It's stopped looking like a postcard of itself. It
>kind of looks like a postcard of the future to me.

I was out today in Vancouver. Street photography took on the winter meaning
here. Some rain; overcast you might say. 1/60sec at 1/4 with 400ISO film in
the brighter parts at around 1:30pm. One of those times you might want some
fast glass. Even Mike Johnston could find a use for it here, I'm sure :-)

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