Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian I referred more to your first sentence "why it is that the norm in street photography is not to interact with the subjects". With my not so good english I didn't want to say this is YOUR definition, what I meant was that such a rule is quite restricting. But I agree for the second sentence that street pictures look better with subjects not being aware than when they pose or stare. If I look at the homeless photographies of this young talent Joey Lawrence, posted on the LUG recently, http://www.joeyl.com/index2a.php, I'm quite shure he was not only sniping; but probably spent a lot of time with this people until they began not being aware of him. Some pictures are portraits with the people looking straight into his camera. Is this interaction? Yes, I would say. Didier >>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 >interaction with the photographer.