Does Street Photography Need People ?
mikepenn
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Well ?
Does Street Photography Need People In It ? 28 votes
Yes
35%
10 votes
No
60%
17 votes
I don't know
3%
1 vote
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I think it has to be approved by a Mod before being made public.
Polls do not need mod approval. There is sometimes a delay before they appear, which is a peculiarity of the forum software.
The one rule I really believe in is that there are no rules. Human presence tends to make shots more interesting, but one sees plenty of banal people-on-the-street pics. And you don't need people to convey human presence--laundry will do, for example, or a discarded pair of eye glasses, or an empty shopping cart. The trick is to make it visually interesting. As I have said many times before, I have little interest in discussing taxonomy.
Pics of stuff without people would seem to fall under other categories to me, such as Urban Landscape or Architecture.
If your poll means to say, 'Does street have to be about people?' then I say yes, absolutely.
Does a street photograph require people or a person to be present in the photograph ?
... I'm still peeling potatoes.
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I think Travis said it best - if he said this: A "street photograph" has to be about people, whether or not it includes a person or persons.
What we think of as street photography developed in an era before air conditioning, when people lived on the street. Street photographers captured all manner of city life - everything from children playing hopscotch to people sleeping on fire escapes, to the kinds of scenes and oddities that Weegee captured.
I consider street photography to be more of a way of seeing, than being photographs taken in a particular place, or "street." The street can be a country lane, it can be a store in the mall. Street photography is photography is non-journalistic photography of the human condition, in all its forms and with all its quirks.
Which, as Travis either noted or as I wish he had, is why I would much rather this forum be called "Candids," or " or "Real life" because those labels are less confusing, and less likely to cause debates and arguments, than "street." They are also less likely to get us photographs of...streets.
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
Yes, that is very much what I meant and I do appreciate you putting it down more succinctly.
Not calling you vague at all - just 'borrowing' from you, or repeating what you said, or rephrasing, or something like that...
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed