Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 7/1/03 1:26:40 PM, steve@streetphoto.net writes: << ...I hate to say this because it seems to be terrible what happened to George, but anybody dumb enough to take a picture of kids that they do not know, is out of touch with our world today. sl >> So George is pretty much right, the realm of documentary photography is dying a slow death, only to be replaced with sanitized staged photos of child (and eventually adult) models attempting to emulate real life situations? At what point other than the far reaches of Amazonian forest or tibetan mountains is all documentary photography not much more than stock photography at worst, "reality" TV at best? - -kim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html