Street Photography: An Invasion Of Personal Privacy

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Since history can date it, photography has been around for over 100 years. People take pictures everyday. Whether it is with a group of people, or just a selfie. People use cameras for most pictures or even their smartphones. Almost everyone in the world takes pictures. There’s honestly no question that street photography can be an amazing project to work on. Some people see street photography as a form of art, and a major way to record our city’s life and the society of people. While there are some other people that think and take street photography as an intolerable violation of their personal privacy. So would street photography be an invasion of peoples privacy? To some it may be, while to others it really isn’t. Most people’s fear is …show more content…
Its safe to say people really like to be stealth and under the radar; however, this means that if their photo was taken they would question, also they would be afraid where that photo will end up and fighting for it to be deleted. For one instance, the photo can end up on Facebook with a lousy caption which makes the person look funny or stupid; furthermore, the photo can also end up on explicit site’s for advertisement and for personal amusement. There are 100’s of explanations on where these photos can end up, which makes this a reasonable reason why people don 't want to be photographed. Now because of how today’s society is, the amount of respect and dignity we have on other peoples behalf just shows how much we care about their personal privacy. We as humans should respect peoples privacy and best not intervene with it. Putting a photo all over the web just to make someone look like a fool is just down right low. Even putting it on explicit sites isn 't right, where is the laugh on that? Not only you give everyone access to view these photos, you also can never delete it once you upload it. For example, if you see a random stranger in his home minding his own business and you were to snap a picture of him, he would immediately be infuriated, while demanding to delete it, and preaching how you are invading his private property. Paparazzi’s tend to invade a lot of celebrities property. …show more content…
It describes todays society one pic at a time. There’s a saying that goes “A picture is worth a thousand words," that is a very broad saying because of all the pictures out there in todays society. The main issue discussed was invasion of privacy through photography, which leads to a lot of aspects to it. Receiving consent is a major issue because, without earning consent it is considered harassment and invasion of privacy. Another point was where that photo will end up. The photo can end up anywhere to be honest, but once it is uploaded it can never get removed, whatever goes on the internet, stays onto the internet. This being said the photo can earn so much humiliation it 's actually very embarrassing. Lastly intruding into ones secluded property is another major point. With this comes the photographer sneaking onto private property and snapping pictures. Yet also, just the photographer outside the private domain not snapping photos is considered invasion of privacy and an harassment. The point is that we as humans should respect one another privacy no questions asked, because we wouldn 't like it if someone does this to us, coming and snapping photos of us and uploading it onto the web. We all should learn to keep our distance and know our rights because this can lead to some bad

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