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Posted by bmtlines on Mon Jul 27 11:25:49 2009, in response to Re: NYPD Supports Subway Photographer, posted by Nilet on Mon Jul 27 02:55:15 2009. When a photographer is harassed by a cop, any mention of it provokes a flamewar between the three general factions— the people who think that action ought to be taken to prevent it from happening again and that the photographer should file a complaint or lawsuit and not take it lying down, the people who think it was all the photographer's fault and he should stop invoking constitutional rights and thinking independent thoughts and not do things that might bruise the officer's massive ego, and the people who believe that harassment of photographers is a necessary and/or good thing and that the photographer should put his camera into storage until the government decides it's permissible for subjects to take pictures again and be glad he wasn't locked up like the evil Enemy Of The State he is.Perfect analysis of the photo rights debates going on over at all the photography groups as well. You would think that photographers would be united on this issue but they too fall into those three camps. Studio and wedding photographers who think that the camera belongs in a studio don't care for the rights of "street photographers", etc. I would add a fourth category: Those who simply don't care either because they have not personally experienced the harassment or only take pictures - ad nauseum - of their own family and friends and again don't care about the rest of us. |
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