Street Photography Now - Hardcover

Howarth, Sophie; McLaren, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500543933 ISBN 13: 9780500543931

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2010

Synopsis

The first substantial survey of international street photography since the late 1980s.

For the last twenty years the candid photography of life in public has been mostly underground but secretly flourishing, stimulated by the wide availability of digital cameras, a profusion of photoblogs, and new self-publishing opportunities.

Street Photography Now showcases the work of forty-six image-makers who are notable for their candid depictions of life on the streets and in the subway, in shopping malls and movie theaters, on beaches and in parks. Four thought-provoking essays put the work into the wider context of what has gone before, while quotes from the photographers expand and illuminate their work and draw attention to their influences and ways of working.

Included are luminaries such as Magnum grandmasters Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr, and Alex Webb, as well as an international group of emerging photographers whose views of New York or Tokyo, Mumbai or Bournemouth, Istanbul or Dakar, all record moments in time that will never be repeated. 200 color and 60 black-and-white photographs

About this title

About the Author:

Sophie Howarth is a writer, teacher, curator, and entrepreneur based in London. She was Curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern and an Associate Curator for Artangel. She is coauthor, with Stephen McLaren, of Street Photography Now.

Stephen McLaren is a photographer, writer, and curator based in San Francisco. He is coauthor, with Sophie Howarth, of Street Photography Now. He also coauthored Photographers' Sketchbooks with Bryan Formhals.

Review:

“Somehow the most compelling street photography remains the kind that allows us to imagine ourselves wandering into the frame.”
- Wall Street Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0500543933
• ISBN 13: 9780500543931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240