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Subject: [Leica] Lecia Street Photography
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Tue Jul 15 02:23:47 2008

Ok, now you have raised the bar: I shall now have something to aim at as I 
walk the streets of Paris in September. 

Cheers

--- photo@frozenlight.eu wrote:

From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Lecia Street Photography
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:44:47 +0200

Illegal Paris images here:

http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/15.jpg
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2003/2003_30alt4.jpg
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_10alt4.jpg
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_10alt6.jpg
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_10alt8.jpg
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_10alt9.jpg

I am happy to break French laws every time I am in France. So far the  
gendarmerie have not come after my web sites...

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
http://www.nathanfoto.com

Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog



On Jul 12, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote:

> Dodge the trouble, smile and keep shooting: that will be my plan in  
> Paris. 3 weeks to capture a brief glimpse of life in 2008. It will  
> be fun. I don't expect to upset anyone, but I do believe in street  
> photography as a way to record the life we lead.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alastair
>
> --- eboehmjr@gmail.com wrote:
>
> From: "Eric Boehm, Jr" <eboehmjr@gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Lecia Street Photography
> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:30:11 -0400
>
> Alastair,
>
> Indeed, a sad state of affairs. My understanding is that in a public
> arena one can photograph people as they are. The resulting photographs
> can be shown in the context of "art" providing they are not
> derogatory. And in my book, providing you do not make money off of the
> print. Salgado's images can seel for 10K a pop. I doubt the subject
> ever recieves anything for the image. Same goes for National
> Geographic. There are no model release forms there either.
>
> Eric
>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Alastair Firkin  
> <afirkin@afirkin.com> wrote:
>> I must make a quick comment. Leica are calling for MASTER IMAGES  
>> via the LFI. They want M8 DLUX CLUX images only, to "prove" how  
>> good these digital marvels are I suppose. When you read the fine  
>> print, you have to have model releases for anyone in the images:  
>> Well perhaps the photography the M was good for is now no longer  
>> viable. I can't imagine traveling in India and having to get  
>> someone to sign a release.
>>
>> I'm going to Paris in September for 3 weeks: one of my aims is to  
>> make some street images, but in France the rules are even stricter  
>> I believe. Certainly 60% of HCB's work would not pass the Leica  
>> Master image requirements. For children you would have to track  
>> down the legal guardians. It seems a bit depressing to use the M to  
>> take only animals, vegetables and minerals, and I suppose body  
>> parts which cannot be identified.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Alastair
>>
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