Wayne S wrote
> So the question I ask, was the image taken in a way that people know.
> Hiding the act of taking a picture is more like spying. It is a way for
> the photographer to avoid dealing with being part of the scene. Being in
> the scene asks more from the photographer.
>
> So, I think there is a strong element to the resulting photo from
> being on the street and deliberately putting the camera to the
> face and taking the picture. Images where the photographer is
> present with the image being taken can say a lot about the
> photographer. Some of Marc's images have that quality. You can
> feel his presence in the images.
>
> People are extremely sensitive to the presence of a camera
> I'm not sure if it was Annie Leibovitz or another photographer,
> who said they deliberately make the fact they have a camera known
> from the start and don't try to hide it. I believe this is an important
> aspect of street photography and the results obtained. And certainly one
> can be discrete in taking the image, but the result is different and you
> can feel the difference.
I've been wondering about doing "street" or candid photography in some
venues, as a way of varying my portfolio.
There was a famous New Zealand photographer, Brian Brake, and I have
been studying some of his works; in the large and in its time very popular
tome "New Zealand - Gift of the Sea" (some editions ran to more than
100,000 copies - which is about 100 times larger a print run than most NZ
books do) he has some stunning candid shots of people at country auctions,
and the like; and in these cases it is clear that the subjects had no idea they
were being photographed. AND, the moment was decisive, for facial
expression and the like. Ans Westra is another NZ photographer who was
also good at this - she used exclusively a Rolleicord twin-lens reflex. A
different sort of covert live view..
Brian Swale.
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