{"id":1027,"date":"2010-05-09T19:53:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T23:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2010-05-09T19:54:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T23:54:44","slug":"new-yorkgreenwich-village-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/new-yorkgreenwich-village-4\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Greenwich Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHouston Street and MacDougal — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

I saw the MoMA ad for the Cartier-Bresson show and began taking some snaps through the chainlink fence. Within seconds I was accosted by a man who requested\/demanded that I stop photographing the children. I told him I was photographing the whole scene, not the kids in particular, and that I would not take any more pictures, because he had asked. As I began to walk away, a girl on the other side of the fence asked if I was “videoing” them, and I answered, “no, just still photos.” The man, presumably a teacher at a nearby private school, then admonished the girl for talking to me, saying “you know what we’ve said about people like that.”<\/p>\n

I understand the concerns about protecting children from predators–I am, after all, the father of an 11 year old boy–but this is simply another example of the demonization of photographers. Had I wanted to surreptitiously photograph the kids, I could easily have done so without being noticed. Moreover, I was standing on a public street, and the students were using a public park, not even a private school playground, for recreation. A pattern of undue interest might well be considered worthy of some level of intervention. But simply taking photographs in a public place where kids are playing does not constitute suspicious behavior, and it is certainly not illegal.<\/p>\n

More photos of\u00a0 children in public places:<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph by Helen Levitt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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