Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Was this the BAM concert behind Brooklyn Poly? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Saganich" <chs2018@med.cornell.edu> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, 12 August, 2008 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] SFMOMA incident > Yea, I was witness to a similar event last Thursday. Richie Havens played > a free concert in downtown Brooklyn in a small plaza. The coordinators > asked that concert goers to restrict taking photographs to the first two > (or three) numbers, (ie crowing around the stage being annoying with big > cameras for the whole show.) They were explicit in citing those > "professional cameras with the large lenses" as being of most concern. > For the most part people came to the stage snapped a couple picts and went > back to their seat, except one guy, who after about 6 or so songs was > politely asked to finish-up. Well what a fuss he made, bla, bla, public > place, I'm not a professional, and refused to move. Like out of spite > switched his camera to burst mode or something and became even more > confrontational. The the concert coordinators had no real authority to > remove the guy from a public place so they dropped it. I noticed he > eventually became bored and decided enjoying Havens was better then > photographing him. > > Question: This restriction of "professional cameras with big lenses" > seems to be a new policy around here > > > At 01:51 PM 8/11/2008, you wrote: > >>I wasn't going to post this, because I figured someone else would. In the >>206 comments to Hawk's initial blog post (when I went to it) one was from >>someone who proported to be one of the two SFMOMA employees who escorted >>the photographer from the premises. He stated that Mr. Hawk was asked to >>stop photographing ten times not for taking photos in the atrium, but for >>what the employees believed was perching on a balcony and taking a >>photograph down a staff members amply filled blouse. Whether or not this >>was actually the case (to the untrained eye a large aperture wide angle >>lens at the appropriate angle for capturing a large room can probably look >>like a super-telephoto pointed in a strange direction) it sounds like a >>reasonable starting point for a flare-up. It also appears from reading a >>few of his blog posts that he can be a confrontation waiting for an event. >>And the fact that he continued photographing after being asked to stop ten >>times suggests to me not that the atrium of SFMOMA was in such desperate >>need of being photographed at that exact moment, but that he was looking >>for a fight. >> >>There are photographs that it's a journalists duty to go to the mat to >>get. The already well photographed atrium of SFMOMA probably isn't, IMHO, >>one of those. >> >>kc >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Chris Saganich, M.S. > Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics > Weill Medical College of Cornell University > New York Presbyterian Hospital > chs2018@med.cornell.edu > http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ > Ph. 212.746.6964 > Fax. 212.746.4800 > Office A-0049 > > > > > > > > > "I am the radiation" > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >