Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It does of course - because who is to know whether the person in the picture is a stranger to you or not? See Helen Levitt's picture of her friend being ogled by young men in Rome. It is completely immaterial whether the picture was directed to some extent or not. Similarly, the hoohah over Doisneau's kiss photos is based on a mistaken premise, IMO. Or, to take an example closer to home, my own pictures are always taken with the subjects well aware of the fact that I present and taking pictures - often for days or weeks at a time. I think they show slices of life as well as any others, if that is the criterion. All talk that concentrates on method rather than the final result is missing the point, I think. Any method can only be judged by how effective it is; it must be leapfrogged over to arrive at the picture. - -- Rob http://www.robertappleby.com Mobile: (+39) 348 336 7990 Home: (+39) 0536 63001 All outgoing email scanned by Norton AntiVirus (TM) 2003 Professional Edition. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Nemeth" <azn@nemeng.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 8:35 PM Subject: [Leica] re: The Decisive Moment is gone > Tina Manley wrote: > > > There is a third choice. Get to know your subjects and > > spend enough time with them that they forget you are > > taking photographs. > > > Yes - I generally agree. This approach works well for > families and social functions. > > But it doesn't really work for spontaneous, slice-of-life > images of strangers in public places does it?... > > (Which is what I think the WashPost article was on about.) > > > :?/ > > Regds, > > Andrew Nemeth > Blue Mountains NSW Australia > <http://nemeng.com> > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html