Discussions about street photography

Barcelona, 2005
Photo © Ulf Fågelhammar
(they are not disussing street photography)

Have a look at some of the ongoing discussions about "street photography".
Nick Turpin, Sevensevennine(779) says:
"Less than 1% of the 'street photography' I see on the web is worth seeing, less than 1% makes me look twice and my heart race, less than 1% makes me dearly wish I had been the author of that shot...so why is that other 99% there?"
(It is worth remembering that it is forbidden to photograph people in the streets in many countries - I think I would rather see some "crappy" pictures from such places than the "humouristic" and calculated work by for example Matt Stuart who Mr Turpin apparently consider is a genius) - Mr Urbano

Blake Andrews says: "I think one reason is that street photography has become a sort of catchall for much of the non-project oriented photography out there. If you're not a conceptual artist and you like to let your camera guide you, what do you do? You wander around with a camera and shoot what you find. If you're in an urban setting, this becomes photos of pedestrians and bums and pets and billboards and whatever. By default it becomes street photography."
(There are interesting articles in Blake's blog, but I am in great doubt about him publishing photos of Helen Levitt, HCB etc - obviously without permission) - Mr Urbano

The discussion continues on Flickr :
where for example !Jinju Pro User says:
I disagree. If a "photo tells a thousand words" then I don't think you fail if you can write those thousand words about it. the problem is when you can't write more than 4. "It's an umbrella nose".

If you are looking for the context of all this, you have to visit the sites that I have linked too. There are indeed a thousand (wise?) words about the subject (mostly uttered by men for some reason) - Mr Urbano ( who happens to agree with "Jinju" on the "umbrella nose".) "Jinju" is referring to a picture by photographer Matt Stuart.