Street Photography
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Animal Kingdom
Atget's photographic work
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Bethnal Green Road
Boulevard De Strasbourg
Cartier-Bresson's photographs
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Constantin Guys
Documentary Photography
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Fait Divers
Firemen
Future Practice
Garry Winogrand
gendered urban spaces
Gustave Caillebotte
impressionism influence
Literary trends
Mac Orlan
Multivalent Genre
Open Minded Space
Parisian modernity studies
photographic semiotics
pictorial representation of street life
Pierre Mac Orlan
Privileged Instant
Robert Doisneau
Secret Paris
Street Photograph
Street Photographer
Street photography
urban visual culture
Vice Versa
visual ethnography
Wall Graffiti
Young Homeless
Young Man
Zoo Practices
Product details
- ISBN 9781845112684
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jun 2007
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Street photography is perhaps the best-loved and most widely known of all photographic genres, with names like Cartier-Bresson, Brassai and Doisneau familiar even to those with a fleeting knowledge of the medium. Yet, what exactly is street photography? From what viewpoint does it present its subjects, and how does this viewpoint differ from that of documentary photography? Looking closely at the work of Atget, Kertesz, Bovis, Rene-Jacques, Brassai, Doisneau, Cartier- Bresson and more, this elegantly written book, extensively illustrated with both well-known and neglected works, unpicks Parisian street photography's affinity with Impressionist art, as well as its complex relationship with parallel literary trends and authors from Baudelaire to Philippe Soupault. Clive Scott traces street photography's origins, asking what really what happened to photography when it first abandoned the studio, and brings to the fore fascinating questions about the way the street photographer captures or frames those subjects - traders, lovers, entertainers - so beloved of the genre.In doing so, Scott reveals street photography to be a poetic, even 'picturesque' form, looking not to the individual but to the type; not to the 'reality' of the street but to its 'romance'.
Clive Scott is Professor of European Literature, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia. His books include The Spoken Image: Photography and Language and Translating Baudelaire.
