Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't want to awaken a sleeping dragon here, but... I don't understand how a "drunken unfortunate lying in the gutter" is any different from the subject of any other still life posted here. Visually speaking: Poorly done is just poorly done. Artfully done, it might well better the many "family member across the dinner table" snap shots we so often post here. Socially speaking: "No bums?" Are we denying the wino or bum the ability to make his own decisions and his own humanity, or are we merely sweeping aside a group of people we are not comfortable seeing? Do we see ourselves as taking advantage of subjects incapable of defending themselves? Personal preferences and taste aside, I fail to see the essential photo subject difference between a sleeping infant and a bum in the gutter. At times they match each other even in odor. Forthwith: Week 15 http://gallery.leica-users.org/PAW-2005/Week_15 I don't know if he is drunk and homeless passed out or a student napping before his bus to his next class. Maybe you can tell me. Ric Carter On Apr 18, 2005, at 7:35 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > B. D. Colen showed: > Subject: RE: [Leica] B.D. PAWS > > >> Thanks so much...I realize I'm violating the Kyle Cassidy "no bums" >> rule >> - which I enforce in my class!:-) - but rules are made to be broken... >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/ALDO >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/FU<<<<<<<<< > > Hi B.D., > Works for me as a caught moment in the life of a street dweller. And > that's > in both pictures, last year and this year. Both unique captured > moments. > > As far as violating the code of "no bums?" Like any rule, they are > made for > modification under certain conditions, which in this case is OK.. At > least > he appears alive and not a drunken unfortunate lying in the gutter > with an > empty bottle. :-( > > Now those type of pictures are off limits, as it's like shooting fish > in a > barrel and points out the photographer has no real talent other than > shooting unconscious humans. > > ted