Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with Rabs. Of course. And a further thought: I remember one day not long ago -- within the last decade that means, to us oldies -- seeing a photographer with a Leica 35mm camera on Fifth Ave near the corner of 57th or 58th St I think (possibley a few blocks osouth of there) standing in the flow of the crowd just whirling right and left and all the way around taking pictures of people only .7 meters from their faces in many cases, or sometimes a bit further. He was like a dervish: to watch him was to see a man who was completely lost in what he was doing, the faces in the crowd, images momentarily clarified within a blur, him catching them probably not in full focus most of hte time, taking pictures (and manually advancing the film) as fast as I've ever seen anyone with that kind of equipment work. I deeply admired him. He looked insane. He was frightening people. Some people, that is. It was New York after all and many just made their way around him and kept on without a backward glance. Here's a very short, famous, Eastern-ish poem for street photographer's everywhere. The title is "In a Station of the Metro" - it's only two lines long: The apparition of these faces in a crowd; Petals on a wet black bough. it's like a Capa picture double exposed onto an Ansel Adams.... On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > I think the size of his cannon...er....Canon..is what is making him so > > conspicuous and is what is unnerving his subjects. My reference to the > Leica > > RF is not so he can be like HCB, but so he might be less conspicuous. > Robert > > Capa's Contax would be fine too. Using a big SLR with a telephoto to get > > pictures of young ladies is paparazzi-ish, not streetphotography-ish. > > > > Jeffery > > > I think he can set up an 8x10 view camera if he feels like it if he's not > blocking the sidewalk too much. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >