Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 11/23/99 5:26:37 PM, michaeljohnston@ameritech.net writes: << Half of my involvement in photography has consisted of becoming thoroughly jaded about various clichéd subject matter. Street people were first, because everybody I ever taught in D.C. at one point or another decided that they needed to change the world with a socially meaningful photograph of a homeless person asleep on a bench or sidewalk. I used to mark students up half a grade point for the semester if they'd never shown me a "bum shot." >> To continue in the vein of photographic confession (I previously admitted making cheap environmental portraits) I confess, I once photographed a bum. But I was not content to just grab a quick photo. I introduced myself and talked him into letting me follow him around some. I went with him while he bummed, while he bought his triple cheeseburger at Wendy's, when he went to the liquour store and drank with his bum friends. I even went back to the flop house where he lived, sneaked past the desk with him and made a cheap environmental portrait of him and his roommate in their room. There I feel better already Bob (forgive me for I have commited a photographic sin) McEowen