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Photographing Architecture is Not a Crime

19 April 2006 | Category: Architecture Debates

After the 911 incident, taking photographs of buildings is a crime. If you happen to love photography, chances are you’re a victim of the 911 incident. What is the whole fuss about? and if Osama and gang wanted to bomb the building, they would have snap those high resolution pictures with a good phone, for example the latest phone by Samsung that has a 3.2 mp auto-focus camera.

Next thing you know I get the typical hassle. Except normally when the guards come out all polite like and all this guy instead comes out middle finger a blazing and telling me that I’m not allowed to photograph the building from the public space.

Thomas Hawk has his own share of bad experience. If I were really “studying” a building, I would be sketching the plans and perspectives, not simply taking snapshots for trace fodder. The security guards should fear the sketchbooks and pencils!

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