Street Style 1906



Edward Linley Sambourne was a professional illustrator and cartoonist, but his hobby was photography. He took pictures of women on the streets of England to document their choice of dress, but rarely did the subject know he was snapping the pictures! Sambourne's method would be a privacy issue today, but as the photographs are now over a hundred years old, they are a catalog of what women of the time looked like in their natural habitat. See more photographs at The Library Time Machine. Link -via Nag on the Lake

Legal or not, some women might take issue with a stranger snapping their picture. They might get the idea they are being stalked.

According to some recent news stories, the legality of taking pictures in public all depends on which cop you are photographing.
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You have no reasonable expectation of privacy walking down the public street. That's why you wear pants.

Some places are stricter than others, and many have rules about the intent of the picture, but for the most part you are in public and pictures are allowed.

Commercial photography is one example.

Surveillance cameras, however, don't ask you for permission.
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Sorry, the computer is acting up, what I am trying to say that I do not want my picture taken. I EXPECT privacy at all times. Other people seeing me is one thing, but when you take my picture that IS
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I disagree with people saying that once you are outside you have no right to privacy. what a load of bullshit. Whether I am in my house or on the street I EXPECT
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What's the privacy issue? The women are in public - the laws in the UK today (I can't speak for other countries) allow you to photograph anyone who is in a public place, even if they don't know you're doing it. I believe the term is they have 'no reasonable expectation of privacy'.
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I don't regret that fashion dictates have eased over the decades, but it is a shame that hats went so out of style. (I don't consider baseball caps to be hats..)
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