Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/30

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] How healthy is street photography?
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Querol)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:31:06 +0200
References: <6a7544a61003281635s7425cf49o433dd56b93cb5b3e@mail.gmail.com> <419FBA25-669F-4342-9952-16ACAD1378B9@gmail.com> <03C70E75-A424-457E-A420-2B27DE110219@mac.com>

George,

You are right, many events, many shooters on the streets and it is  
difficult say something

Cheers
Lluis

El 30/03/2010, a las 19:43, George Lottermoser escribi?:

> For me the "best" street photography goes beyond
> simply photographing anything and everything
> which happens in the streets.
>
> It seems to me that "street photography"
> has become diluted with hundreds of thousands snapshots
> which do not "go beyond."
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
> On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Jeffery Smith 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
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Leica Users Group.
>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Leica Users Group.
>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information



Replies: Reply from passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro) ([Leica] How healthy is street photography?)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] How healthy is street photography?)
Message from jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] How healthy is street photography?)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] How healthy is street photography?)