Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 20/5/00 3:59 pm, rnkramer@mindspring.com at rnkramer@mindspring.com wrote: > But some of > the most powerful photos of the twentieth century would not exist if > *everyone* followed your suggestion Helen Levitt's Harlem shots for example, shot with a rightangle finder. So I believe were quite a lot of Humphrey Spender's magnificent Worktown (mass-observation) photographs. Then there's Walker Evans on the subway... Robert Frank was a compulsive hipshooter I think... at least according to Robert Delpire (I think that's where I read the story). I do hipshoot quite a lot in some circumstances but it has rather more to do with liking to change the perspective... I am taller than a lot of people, for example, and I get really bored with that downward angle. The best advice I've seen came from the person who said carry the camera in both hands, lens pointed down. Dead right, if you're concerned about people's reaactions. Gives your subject a chance to get the hell out of the way or yell at you. - -- Johnny Deadman photos: http://www.pinkheadedbug.com music: http://www.jukebox.demon.co.uk