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Subject: [Leica] How healthy is street photography?
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:29:55 -0400
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So that's where he's hiding ;-)

> SmugMug has a very active street and pj photo forum moderated by none
> other
> than BD Colen:
> http://www.dgrin.com/forumdisplay.php?f=59
>
> <http://www.dgrin.com/forumdisplay.php?f=59>Join us!  I don't have as much
> time these days, but I do enjoy reading the forum as often as I can.
>
> Tina
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I sense that there are fewer fans of street photography, but I cannot
>> say
>> why. The Street Photography forum seemed to go from B&W film to color
>> digital about 7-8 years ago (when digital became completely usable), and
>> the
>> division between street photography and other genres seems to have
>> become
>> fuzzy as a result. Lluis's photos seem to still be squarely in the genre
>> of
>> street photography. And I see less of this every day. Some of the street
>> photography adherents on the LUG seem to have drifted away, and some
>> have
>> died. Steve LeHuray really lived and breathed street photography with a
>> Leica M that made Garry Winogrand's M4 seem "minty" (ebay term) by
>> comparison. Maybe the SPers are a dying breed. After last week's heated
>> discussion of about 100 posts on SP, I hope nobody was scared off.
>>
>> I want to get back into Lluis mode soon.
>>
>> Jeffery
>>
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
>>
>> > Is street photography dying? I just returned from a major NY area
>> photo
>> show
>> > in a community rife with advertising, commercial and TV photographers.
>> There
>> > were 60 exhibitors, many of them successful photo professionals. Only
>> one
>> > offered what could be called a street photo. There were just three
>> pictures
>> > of people, one in the street photo and the other two reasonably formal
>> > portraits. The rest were carefully arranged landscapes, flowers, and
>>  travel
>> > scenes with studied attention to the rules of composition. There was
>> little
>> > spontaneity and no apparent joy. It looked like the final exam in a
>> photo
>> > school composition class. Everyone was trying to be an ARTIST. How
>> boring
>> > compared to the LUG. Fortunately the wine and cheese were good.
>> >
>> > Larry Z
>> >
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] How healthy is street photography?)
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Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] How healthy is street photography?)