Street Photography

Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a couple at city hall in Reno, Nevada, and t...

Contact sheets unveil the story of what went into a photograph. Was it the outcome of what a photographer had in mind from the outset Did it emerge from a diligently worked sequence Was the right shot a matter of being in the right place at the right timeHere, for the first time, are the best contact sheets created by Magnum photographers. They ...

After beginning his career as a photojournalist for a daily newspaper in southern California, Dan Winters moved to New York to begin a celebrated career that has since led to more than one hundred awards, including the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography. An immensely respected portrait photographer, Dan is well known for an impeccabl...

Please note that all blank pages in the book were chosen as part of the design by the publisher.A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment. It is...

This work is a chronicle of the photographic genre created from the chaotic energy of everyday street life. It grew out of a 15year collaboration between an esteemed curator and a distinguished photographer. The work of such celebrated masters as Arget, Stieglitz, Cartierbresson, Brassai, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand is presente...

For the last twenty years the candid photography of life in public has been mostly underground but secretly flourishing, stimulated by the wide availability of digital cameras, a profusion of photoblogs, and new selfpublishing opportunities.Street Photography Now showcases the work of fortysix imagemakers who are notable for their candid depicti...