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15. " [T]he tradition of 'street photography', so prominent in the history of [photography], is practically nonexistent in California. It has been taken up by only a few younger photographers, namely Henry Wessel, John Harding, and Bill Dane in San Francisco, and Anthony Hernandez, who photographs Rodeo Drive."
Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or inquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents [1] within public places, usually with the aim of capturing images at a decisive or poignant moment by careful framing and timing. Although there is a difference between street ...
Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed around the world.
Garry Winogrand (January 14, 1928 – March 19, 1984) was an American street photographer, [ 1] known for his portrayal of U.S. life and its social issues in the mid-20th century. Photography curator, historian, and critic John Szarkowski called Winogrand the central photographer of his generation.
The core of Bystander is "a roughly chronological survey of European/American street photography featuring its key innovators, styles, and trends". Westerbeck was responsible for the text, which includes "subjects like the ethics of photographing human suffering or role of images in shaping collective perception of events".
Joel Meyerowitz. Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) [1] is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. In the early 1970s he taught photography ...
Bruce Gilden. Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is an American street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun. [ 1][ 2] He has had various books of his work published, has received the European Publishers Award for Photography and is a Guggenheim Fellow.
Richard Bram (born 1952) is an American street photographer. He is based in London and was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.. Bram has published two books of candid public photographs: Street Photography (2006), a compact collection of black and white photographs taken around the world from 1988 to 2005; and New York (2016), "like a greatest-hits album" of work made ...