Bystander : a history of street photography : with a new afterword on street photography since the 1970s

This landmark book chronicles the development of a kind of photography that is created out of the energy and chance juxtapositions found in everyday life on the street. Street photography is at the heart of what makes photography unique. An unprecedented study that is the first history of this tradition ever published, Bystander explores street photography through a discussion of the medium's masters - Atget, Stieglitz, Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Kertesz, Evans, Levitt, Frank, Arbus, Winogrand, and many others - and reveals along the way much about the craft and creative process of photography. Profusely illustrated with the work of more than eighty photographers, the book is composed of four parts separated by lively folios of pictures. Each part discusses a different era - from the early days of the medium in nineteenth-century Europe, to America in the late twentieth century - and devotes entire chapters to the key figures of that period. A guide to the development of street photography. It is divided into 4 sections: Atget and the 19th-century; Cartier-Bresson and Europe in the 20th-century; Walker Evans and pre-war America; and Robert Frank and post-war America. It also features the work of Brassai, Kertesz, and Lartigue. An illustrated history of street photography, investigating the work of photographers from four different eras, from the early days of the medium in nineteenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century America, and including photographs from over eighty practitioners. This volume - a history of street photography - showcases many of the renowned photographers of the genre from the past 150 years. The work of artists such as Arget, Stieglitz, Cartier-Bresson, and Garry Winogrand is presented, along with that of complete unknowns.