Street photography : from Atget to Cartier-Bresson / Clive Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Clive, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Street photography--France--Paris--19th century.

Street photography.

Street photography--France--Paris--20th century.

Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927.

Atget, Eugène.

Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004.

Cartier-Bresson, Henri.

Street photography--History.

History.

France--Paris.

Physical Description:

xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the United States distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

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 Atget, Kertesz, Bovis, Rene-Jacques, Brassai, Doisneau, Cartier- Bresson and more, this elegantly written book unpicks Parisian street photography's complex relationship with parallel literary trends -- from Baudelaire to Soupault -- as well as its more evident affinity with Impressionist art. Street Photography reveals the genre to be poetic, even "picturesque," looking not to the type but to the individual, not to the reality of the street but to its "romance."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-228) and index.

ISBN:

9781845112233

1845112237

9781845112684

1845112687

OCLC:

148799112