On 6/29/07, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/6/07, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >On this point you may be correct. France is at the forefront of > >ridiculous restrictions on photographers, having essentially made Street > >Photography illegal.
As far as I'm aware (and please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), what's illegal in France is ~publishing~ street photos. More to the point, one must have releases of every subject of every photo published. It's the publishing of photos without releases that's illegal. I recall that the press were incensed, saying that every time they took a photo of a event with a crowd, they'd be require releases from (potentially) dozens or hundreds of bystanders - either that or disfigure faces beyond recognition (how nice would that look?). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
