一个街头摄影家的十条建议（转）
Here are a few things you can do to prepare yourself for a bucolic life as a street photographer:
1. Walk around a city street aimlessly, pointing at people 3-4 feet away and making clicking sounds. They may look at you funny or say "why are you pointing at me?" or make rude remarks. Smile back, look over their shoulder, as if you were pointing at something else, or just ignore them. When this seems so natural you don't notice it any more and you're not aware of their reactions, you are ready to replace that pointing finger with a camera.
2. Go to the bank. Withdraw $50. In singles. Walk down a street and toss the money away, one dollar at a time. When this doesn't bother you, you are ready buy, use and process large quantities of film.
3. Stand on a sidewalk during lunch hour, smiling at everyone but watching them very closely. When this doesn't bother you, you are ready to spend your lunch hours taking pictures (after all, lunch hour is when the most sidewalk action is happening).
4. Quit your job in the suburbs and get one downtown. After all, who takes good street photos in suburbia?
5. Cut out a picture of a Leica M-series camera. Put it someplace obvious. Drool at it daily for a few months. Then get financing and buy one.
6. Take all the food out of your freezer. Replace it with Tri-X or HP-5 Plus. Take out ten rolls a day, and use them all. (Eat the food before it rots.)
7. Write down three practical reasons to be a street photographer. When you don't get past reason #1, give it up and just go shoot. This may not prepare you for anything, but at least it will help you realize that creativity is irrational.
8. Buy The Decisive Moment, by Henri Cartier-Bresson (if you can find it--good luck), The Americans by Robert Frank, Figments from the Real World by Garry Winogrand and Personal Exposures by Elliott Erwitt. Look at the photos until the binding breaks. Get 'em re-bound. Keep looking.
9. When asked what you would consider the perfect getaway, say "a week alone in a darkroom" and mean it.
10. Constantly ask yourself, "what the heck would what I'm looking at look like framed, still, two-dimensional, in black and white"? If the search for an answer gets your heart pumping, makes your throat dry and you become kind of gooey inside, it's love. Don't fight it. Take out that Leica M that you're still paying off and start shooting.
一个街头摄影家的十条建议
做为一名街头摄影者，在开始你田园牧歌般的生活之前，有几件事情你可以去准备一下：
1. 漫游在城市的街头，一边指着离你一米左右的人一边自言自语，人们也许会觉得你的样子很滑稽，也许会问：“你为什么指着我”，或者干脆骂你一顿。遇到这样的情况，你要微笑以对，目光从她们的肩头绕过，似乎你在指着其他人，或是干脆不理她们…….当这一切趋于自然，你已不再在乎人们对你的反应时，你就可以用镜头替换你的手指，开始拍照了。
2. 去银行换50块钱的硬币，然后边走边扔，每次扔一块钱……当这件事儿已经不在使你心 疼，你就已经为"浪费"大批的胶片做好了一个充分的心理准备。
3. 吃中饭的时候站在路边，微笑地看着每一个路过的人并且近距离地观察她们。当你的心态稳定了，你就可以从容地拍照了。吃中饭的时间是非常适于拍街头的，因为在这段时间里，街头会有很多的可能……
4. 辞掉你在郊外的工作，找一个在市区的工作。因为在郊区你不可能拍到更多/更好的街头片。
5. 从书上剪一张莱卡M系列的图片，把她放在你房间的显著位置，每天都深情地看她一眼，然后搞一笔钱将她拿下。
6. 取出你冰箱里的所有食品，让柯达Tri-X 胶卷或伊尔福HP-5胶卷取而代之。出门前，带上十个卷，在一天内把他们拍掉(最好在食品腐烂前把它们吃掉)。
7. 给街头摄影三个实用的理由。如果你不能解释，暂且忘了它，继续拍下去。或许你还没有为你的行为做好充分的理论准备，但至少这会让你认识到"创新是没有道理的"。
8. 买下列四本书：布勒松的<决定性瞬间>(假如可以找到的话)，罗伯特富兰克的<美国人>，加里温诺格兰德的<现实中的超现实>和伊利奥特伊威特的<私密曝光>，要反复地看直到那些影像变成你自己的东西。
9. 9."暗房就象修道院"。一个星期泡在暗房里，会使你的心智和身体都得到很好的调整和解脱。
10. 不断地自问，“难道我透过取景器看到的平面的，静止的，黑白的影像，真的是世界的本质吗？我们的世界真的是我看到的这个样子吗？”假如这个问题一直困扰者你，不断地使你心跳，心烦意乱，口干舌燥以至产生某种依恋/伤感，我想这就是爱了。别再和她过不去了，操起你的莱卡M6开始狂拍吧。
***注：我的英文不好，以上的东西连猜带蒙总算是"编"完了，希望大家指正。需要注明的是：
第8条中的四本书的书名和作者，均是我自己翻的，不是很准确，应以英文为准。
第9条中“暗房就象修道院”是我后加的，这句话是我的一位朋友说的。我的这个朋友40多岁，自己带着一对双胞胎的女儿（老婆和别人跑了）过着艰难的生活。摄影对于他来说几乎是生命的全部，他和我说：“每当我走进暗房，我就象进了修道院”
第10条：我也说不准这句话的真正含义，希望那位高手指点。
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