Hi, > ...street photography (God, do I hate that term > and description!) ...
Hooray! Yes, I hate it too. It carries such a lot of baggage: inverse snobbery, political correctness, self-satisfied superiority, self-regarding capital-A artiness, "I suffer for the truth" undergraduate bullshit, with a pathetic claim of imagined bravery in the face of pretend danger, practiced mostly by posers enthralled by their own off-the-peg image of urban grit. And it's not just the term. Most 'street photography' is itself pointless, exploitative, vacuous crap masquerading as insight and concern, but hiding a boundless vapidity. Its pompous, pseudo-profundity is chaff thrown out to hide the true depths of its shallowness. Present company excepted, of course. I also hate the term 'travel photography', for some of the same reasons, then a few others on top. What other photographic terms do people hate? Don't hold back now! -- Cheers, Bob
