Apparently there's a proposal to ban photographs of the subways in New York. Photographers are not pleased, and staged a protest:
The photographers - about 100 of them - gathered to express their outrage at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's proposed ban on taking pictures in the subway system. Meeting at Grand Central Terminal, they rode the trains for upward of an hour, shutters clicking, flashes popping, in a filmed rebuke to the idea that photography is somehow a national security threat.
When I took a trip to the Soviet Union back in the late 80s, one of the things we were told was that taking pictures of bridges was strictly forbidden. So...among my photos of the Kremlin, Red Square, etc. I have a very blurry picture of a bridge off in the distance, taken from the moving train. It's a little known fact, but that photo is what brought the Soviet Union to its knees.
Posted by Jason at June 7, 2004 12:10 PM