Oh, I don't care how anyone takes pictures. There are two problems with the standard hipster "street tog" story.
1. It's untrue, and an untruth designed to make the work seem more important.
2. The truth is that cranking the material out is easy, as long as you ignore the fantastical story the man tells.
Since it is easy, and similar work is cranked out by legions of people across the globe using the same methods, this leads us back around to my earlier rhetorical question: "What does it mean when a body of work consists of pictures of a sort that are easily, and are commonly, knocked out by anyone with a modicum of technical ability and patience?"
I have an answer to this question, I think, but it is quite long, complex, and I don't think it's well suited to a forum discussion. I do think it's an important question of photography, though, and one it's worth pondering for oneself.