Street Photography for the Purist

Noise is a digitally contrived ugly mess. Digitally pumping the fuck out of your contrast is ugly and proves you don’t know what you’re doing whilst
trying to achieve a “personal style.”
For until they make a digital body that does everything a Leica M can do in the original format that is true 35mm ... I’m just not that interested.
When I think back to the original list of photographers I named my favourite photographs made by them are the covert variety.
Not the portraits. None with eye contact. Eye contact includes the street photographer as part of the definition of the photograph and I’m not sure I
like that.
Seems to me that when there’s eye contact the photographer is making his or her own impact on the subject and it comes through.
Being the casual unobserved observer is what it is all about.
A bystander with a camera.
Pedestrian.