I've got it! A new, better name for "Street"!

I remember once lending my battered old ute (pickup) to a very feminine friend so she could move some books. (she had a lot of books)

She, surprisingly, loved it because it had 'street cred' and gave it back to me very reluctantly! :p
 
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Since it's pics of folks walking around in the streets, how 'bout "streetwalker photography"?

...hmmm...too pretentious, I guess.

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I think OP is fed up with pictures published as Street photography which depict exactly streets without any being there, human or animal :D Not that they can not make good scene but certainly are not considered street photo....that's my take on this.
 
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I think Roger has expressed my opinion on this very well. I'd much rather be simply thought of as a photographer than as a 'street' photographer or landscape/portrait or any other categorised type. I may be a poor landscape photographer compared to many other photographers but I'd rather not feel precluded due to an ill fitting label.

It's interesting that it's not just photographers who often feel the need to put a label to each photographer, lots of people ask me what type of photographer I am...I think tall and greying sums that up best but it doesn't seem to answer the question adequately enough for most.

Street will do for me as a term but the definition appears a little harder to tie down than the label itself.
 
I'm not even sure about photographer, before getting a camera I would just walk around and say to myself "now that's a picture". Now that I have a camera I still just walk around and take pictures, but ones that tend to last a little longer than in my mind.
 
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The Nazis would have denigrated Street photography as "Asphalt Photography". And perhaps in a century historians would refer to it as "Urban Photography"
 
The only problem with the words street photography is that people are always trying to narrow the definition.
 
Sparrow said:
... Is one allowed to say g@y now? even as an adjective
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Not saying "gay" would be a statement that there is something wrong with it.

I think we greatly overuse labels including gay, street and many others. We need to limit their use to times when they are pertinent and not obvious.
 
Bob Michaels said:
Not saying "gay" would be a statement that there is something wrong with it.

I think we greatly overuse labels including gay, street and many others. We need to limit their use to times when they are pertinent and not obvious.
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I was joking, sorry, I used the word to describe a camera-holster a while back that had it deleted ... I was just poking gentle fun at whoever it was
 
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