Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/19

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Subject: [Leica] philosophy of street photography
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun Aug 19 13:43:14 2007
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On Aug 19, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Brian Reid wrote:

>
>> Your definition of street photography is quite strict.
>
> I didn't define street photography. I said that I have observed  
> that the pictures that are praised the most are pictures in which  
> there is no


visible, obvious,  or apparant...  ??


> interaction with the photographer.


IMHO, often people are aware,  their reaction may be to pretend not  
to be, to look away...or

they may actually do something extra "for the camera" without overtly  
acknowledging the camera...

this may give you a very interesting image, may actually be posed...



seen it, asked them, confirmed it, ....done it myself...


:-)


Steve








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