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Street photography : from Atget to Cartier-Bresson
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Street photography : from Atget to Cartier-Bresson

Author: Clive Scott
Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the United States distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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,  Read more...
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Named Person: Eugène Atget; Henri Cartier-Bresson
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Clive Scott
ISBN: 9781845112233 1845112237 9781845112684 1845112687
OCLC Number: 148799112
Description: xi, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgements --
Illustrations --
Introduction --
1. Out of the studio into the street --
2. The street-photographic and the documentary --
3. Street arts and street métiers --
4. Street photography : the appropriateness of language and an appropriate language --
5. Streets, buildings and the gendered city --
Conclusion --
Appendix --
Notes --
References --
Index.
Responsibility: Clive Scott.

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Traces street photography's origins, asking what really what happened to photography when it first abandoned the studio, and brings to the fore questions about the way the street photographer  Read more...

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