Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A long time contributor to National Geographic he's always been a
photojournalist and that what he does it photojournalism.
He's not about to embrace a new job description title or a photo discprtion
title became some kids came up with it yesterday.
A young new out photog though just might.
--
Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
?On 9/23/19, 3:00 AM, "LUG on behalf of Philippe via LUG"
<lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at
leica-users.org> wrote:
Does this guy qualify as ? Street ? ?
https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/person/william-allard/
<https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/person/william-allard/>
Or does our own PJ doc Ted OC refer to himself as street when shooting
doctors at the clinic or horses in the wild?
In both cases, it is neither street, nor landscape, nor indoors or
outdoors, it is (beautiful) Photography, capital P, IMHO
Amities
Philippe
> Le 22 sept. 2019 ? 21:18, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a
?crit :
>
> This is a little late to the thread. My basic point is that "Street"
> photography is essentially capturing humans as they are in mostly
public
> places. We can be overtly political like Robert Frank pointing out
> uncomfortable truths, we can be artistic in finding everyday art out in
> the streets and parks like much of HCB's work, we can show the amusing
side
> of life like LLuis's many sign juxtapositions.
>
> I think that capturing people in their culture, disarmed from
pretensions
> put on when our subjects know they are being photographed can be some
of
> the most important images for posterity that are taken. Even editorial
> work such as Mary Ellen Mark and "Indian Circus" truly add to
understanding
> about people in places or situations that most of us will never be.
>
> I think that for further discussion we should all look at Johnny
Deadman's
> Pink Headed Bug discussions about Street from what 10 years ago?
>
> --
> Don
> don.dory at gmail.com
>
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