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Street photography : from Atget to Cartier-Bresson
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ISBN: 9781845112233 9781845112684 9781003103905 1003103901 9780857735508 9781000212532 100021253X 9781000211764 1000211762 9781000213423 1000213420 0857735500 1282618806 9786612618802 1441638482 0857717081 6000019440 0755604210 9781441638489 9780857717085 9781282618800 1845112237 1845112687 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Tauris

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Abstract

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'

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