Where do you draw the line in street photography? At least

>>3102350
Where I live a person in public has no right to privacy. A bar, restaurant or store is not considered a public place. But the streets are. Also anyplace that can be seen from the street ( front yard and so forth) is considered to be in public.

I draw the line right at the very beginning of street photography, since it's a played-out genre with nothing new to say. It's just a sad, dead genre that is literally just a soulless, rote imitation of the habits, rituals and ideas of great artists from long ago.

It's kind of like wearing a studded leather jacket and trying to be the most punk all the way up here in 2017. Those poor kids don't even know why they do it, but they feel like they ought to.

>>3102350
>It's okay for me to see you and everything you do in public with my eyes, but the moment it's recorded it suddenly becomes abhorrent?

This should be obvious but the difference is that if you see something it's a private moment. Only the people present at that time see what you do in public, they can then only tell others about it who can choose to believe you or not and if it's nothing significant you will probably forget about it. But if it's recorded everyone, even the people who were not present at that time, can see it.

>>3103631
So what's the happening genre? Where's the good stuff being made today?

>>3103691

I'm personally very excited by the burgeoning genre of "the backs of stupid millennials staring blankly at a landscape". I think there's a lot of room for exploration within the space and in thirty years it will stand as the definitive document of these feckless times.