I agree with your view Frank. Trying to constrain it to some pretentious mumbo jumbo is just nonsense to me. Whatever works for you I say.
On 10/16/07, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/16/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul, > > > > With all due respect, from your words you simply don't 'get' street > > photography. <snip> > > Oh dear! Yet another thread on "what is street photography". > > So, not that anyone cares, but here's my take: > > I remember Shel (not to pick on Shel, who I love to death, irascible > tho' he could be) once chiding me, asking "how many frames did you > take of that subject?", then telling me that I should chat and > otherwise interact with my "street" subjects, get to know them a bit, > make them feel comfortable with me while I shoot. > > You know what? That worked for Shel. It's worked for many > photographers. Sometimes it works for me. > > Other times I prefer to be a stealthy "fly on the wall". > > There's no right or wrong for street photography. HCB wanted to be > "invisible" to his subjects. He rarely shot more than two frames of > one event (that according to his long-time developer) before moving > on. That's in direct opposition to someone like Gary Winogrand, who > shot rolls and rolls of the same subject. > > There are no rules. In fact, I think there's no such thing as "street > photography". One simply takes photographs. Either they work or they > don't. Often they work for some (like this one of Paul's that works > for me) but not for others. > > cheers, > frank > > > > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
