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Lee Yuan Sheng
11-30-2010, 07:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blog.digitalrev.com/2010/11/30/street-photography-when-is-it-too-in-yer-face/' target='_blank'>http://blog.digitalrev.com/2010/11/...oo-in-yer-face/</a><br /><br /></div><p><object width="600" height="360" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/IRBARi09je8&amp;ap=%26fmt=18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IRBARi09je8&amp;ap=%26fmt=18" /></object></p><p>Street photography is a long practised form of photography ever since cameras got small enough to be carried around. Most practitioners labour on how to be as discreet and stealthy, for the prevailing philosophy is that the street photographer's job is to capture that slice of life, a reflection of a moment in urban civilisation. This guy is just quite the opposite, as you can see from the video. If you ask me, this is like a wildlife photographer who throws rocks at his subjects to provoke a response out of them to get a better shot. What do you all think?</p>

Sven Johannsen
11-30-2010, 09:31 PM
Hope that is a waterproof camera. Sooner or later he is going to have to wash it off when somebody shoves it.......

Some photographer step in. Don't you have to have a release from folks if you are going to do anything remotely commercial with your photographs. I suppose there are crowd scene exceptions, but he isn't shooting crowds.

tregnier
12-03-2010, 11:03 PM
What a typical New Yorker!