Street Photography Now Explained

Street Photography Now is a survey book of contemporary street photography, edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren and published by Thames & Hudson in 2010.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] It includes work by 56 photographers. Blake Andrews described the book as "the first broad street photography book to be published since Bystander in 1994".[6] Between 2010 and 2012, a series of exhibitions were held in Europe with work from the book.

Book content

Street Photography Now includes portfolios of work and biographies of Christophe Agou, Gary Alexander,, Narelle Autio, Bang Byoung-Sang, Polly Braden, Maciej Dakowicz, Carolyn Drake, Melanie Einzig, Peter Funch,, Andrew Glickman, George Georgiou, David Gibson, Bruce Gilden, Siegfried Hansen, Cristóbal Hara, Markus Hartel, Nils Jorgensen, Richard Kalvar, Osamu Kanemura, Martin Kollar, Jens Olof Lasthein, Frederic Lezmi, Stephen McLaren, Jesse Marlow, Mirko Martin, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Mimi Mollica, Trent Parke, Martin Parr, Gus Powell, Mark Alor Powell, Bruno Quinquet, Raghu Rai, Paul Russell, Boris Savelev, Otto Snoek, Matt Stuart, Ying Tang, Alexey Titarenko, Lars Tunbjörk, Nick Turpin, Jeff Wall, Munem Wasif, Alex Webb, Richard Wentworth, Amani Willett, Michael Wolf, Artem Zhitenev and . It also includes four essays[7] and a transcript of a conversation between Lezmi, Marlow, Alor Powell, Gus Powell, Russell, Tang and Turpin.

The selection of photographers seemed biased to Andrews:

. . . Street Photography Now seems intimately tied to the web. . . . The selection of photographers seems young, global, and web-savvy, with a substantial dose of HCSP,[8] Flickr, and In-Public members. / Meanwhile, some street stalwarts who aren't daily participants in the online world are left out, e.g., Charles Traub, Sylvia Plachy, Daido Moriyama, [Lee] Friedlander, and Henry Wessel, not to mention the patron saint of candid street photography, Elliott Erwitt. Joel Meyerowitz is included even though he hasn't been an active street shooter for 40 years.

Andrews also noted "various citation snafus", pointing to two descriptions of this as plagiarism.[9] [10]

Project

The accompanying Street Photography Now Project was a year-long collaboration between McLaren, Howarth and The Photographers' Gallery.[11] The project was open to the public and participants were "invited to contribute a photograph each week following a weekly instruction" by a photographer.[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

Exhibitions

Publication details

Notes

  1. News: Sarah. Bakewell. 2020-08-02. The ecstasy of street photography. The Guardian. 23 December 2010. 0261-3077.
  2. Web site: 2020-08-02. Street photography now. BBC.
  3. News: Sean. O'Hagan. Sean O'Hagan (journalist). 2020-08-02. The Best Photography Books of the Year. The Guardian. 12 December 2010. 0261-3077.
  4. Web site: 2020-08-02. Photography books of the year – reviews. 12 December 2010. The Guardian.
  5. Web site: Adam . Juniper. 31 October 2019. 2024-07-18. The best books on street photography in 2019. Digital Camera World . https://web.archive.org/web/20191211195033/https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/features/best-books-on-street-photography . December 11, 2019 . dead.
  6. Web site: Blake. Andrews. Blake Andrews. 2020-08-03. B: Street Photography Now. 29 November 2010.
  7. Web site: 2020-08-03. Street photography now. www.worldcat.org.
  8. "Hardcore Street Photography", a Flickr group; it is described in Andrew Kochanowski, "Contemporary street photography: Where can I find the good stuff?," The Online Photographer, 27 November 2012.
  9. Michael David Murphy, "Street Photography Now fails to cite sources", 2point8, 30 September 2010. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 18 July 2011.
  10. Mike Johnston, "Recent books of interest 2", The Online Photographer, 22 October 2010. See also "More on Street Photography Now", The Online Photographer, 24 October 2020. Accessed 6 August 2020.
  11. News: Dale. Berning. 2020-08-02. Photography: Britain through a lens. The Guardian. 5 August 2011. 0261-3077.
  12. News: 2020-08-02. Street Photography Now: in pictures. 6 October 2010. 0307-1235. The Daily Telegraph.
  13. Web site: 2020-08-02. Street Photography Now Project: shoot on sight. 1 October 2011. The Guardian.
  14. Web site: 2020-08-02. Street Photography Now Project. 30 September 2010. What Digital Camera.
  15. News: Phil. Coomes. 2020-08-02. Fifty-two weeks on the streets. BBC News. 30 September 2011.
  16. Web site: 2020-08-02. Phil. Coomes. Right Here, Right Now: At the Format Festival in Derby. BBC.
  17. Web site: Street photography now at the Third Floor Gallery . 5 October 2010 . 23 March 2016 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160401214101/http://www.in-public.com/news/2010/10/3rdfloor . 1 April 2016 .
  18. Web site: Contributed Studio for the Arts . 5 April 2016 . . dead . https://archive.today/20120723184538/http://www.contributed.de/ . 23 July 2012 .
  19. Web site: 'Street photography now' – exhibition. 5 April 2016 . City of Warsaw .
  20. Web site: Street Photography Here And Now. 5 April 2016 . .
  21. Web site: Street Photography Now Takes Over Paris. 23 March 2016 . Nathalie Belayche . Food for your Eyes .
  22. Web site: Street Photography Now. 23 March 2016 . Uno Art Space .

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