Reichstag posted:

Good New Yorker article on The Americans: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/14/090914fa_fact_lane

quote:

“What are you doing here?”
“I have a Guggenheim scholarship.”
“Who’s Guggenheim?”

Fragrag posted:

No. 9 posted:

Again, before anyone jumps on me, I understand he was in the legal clear. I'm just saying it's part of taking these kind of photos to deal with people more than you would in taking landscapes or something like that. I get the impression he could have handled that a bit better.

Pompous Rhombus posted:

Seriously?

dunno posted:

Schofferhofer posted:

I really wish I didn't live in such a bogan town. Last time I went out street shooting someone threw a milkshake at my camera. Someone with a mullet wearing a stolen tracksuit.

fronkpies posted:

"Excuse me good sir would you mind just waiting while I call the police? I do believe you have just thrown a milkshake at my head"

Anmitzcuaca posted:

it's not street unless you use a Leica with a 35mm lens

Pompous Rhombus posted:

I've found any overtly weird camera basically exempts you from the "being approached by random assholes" clause of street photography. TLR, press camera, whatever.

Pompous Rhombus posted:

The shutters on those things are surprisingly loud, aren't they? A WLF would help, I think the Kiev one should fit a Hassy, right? Those things are so goddamn expensive for a foldy piece of metal.

Scabrous Teat posted:

Sounds like a cool time and not creepy at all.

8th-samurai posted:

Sludge Tank posted:

I'm just telling it like it is. These girls are pretty smashed up.

try it with a lime posted:

People's reactions for the most part are pretty reflexive to your body language. If you act like what you're doing is what you're supposed to be doing, most people won't think anything of it. You will run into resistance from time to time, it's just something you have to live with.

VendaGoat posted:

Nothing in art is about perfection. That's for the realm of engineering.

dunos posted:

The security guard was actually in the process of trying to tell me that I wasn't allowed to take a photo of him.

ansel autisms posted:

this is perfect, actually. you can just feel the photographer's gaze walking through an unfamiliar environment, clutching their camera bag close, turning a corner and SHOCK - it's a poor!!! dip your head back around the wall margaret, this place is not for us

p0stal b0b posted:

Another Person posted:

Love by Carl Jones, on Flickr

Viginti Septem posted:

It's a public protest?

Another Person posted:

It is a public march, through a major city high street with god knows how many CCTV cameras, which remained fully civil, and had by my count 11 other photographers. I have been through the work of at least 7 of them, they also posted whatever they got. There were about 16 police officers posted on the march too. There were also regular adults, mothers and children. This is not photography of direct action, but just a standard march on another week in a city. The police were even notified in advance, and effectively stewarded the pathway the march took.

If it were direct action where the distinction between private individual and public action were blurred, or if it lost civility, I would act responsibly by discarding any photographs I took of the march. This did not happen, however.