This gal's problem, Eric, is that she hasn't a clue what street photography really is. If some guy jams a lens into your face, that's not street photography. If some guy shoots a picture of you from across the street with a long lens, that's not street photography. If the subject is even aware that you're shooting a picture while you're shooting it, in most cases what you're doing isn't street photography. Real street photography deals with relationships between people and between people and their environment. The name is very unfortunate. To understand what street photography really is, you have to study the work of people like HCB (and not his photojournalism, which is a very different kind of thing, though it usually reflects his terrific eye for composition). You also, as someone pointed out, need to study the work of Garry Winogrand and Robert Frank, just to name two more who understood what street is all about. I think it's very difficult for people of the present generation to understand what street is. It's contemplative and it's poetry, which generally is outside their grasp.
