The Work Of Famous Street Photographers
by Paula Barron
Street photography was born in the 1930s, on the streets on Paris. It came about due to the invention of 35mm roll film and smaller rangefinder cameras, such as the Leica. Pivotal to the popularity of the medium was Henri Cartier Bresson, who discovered the importance of finding and capturing the "decisive moment" on film. Many other famous street photographers followed in his wake, including William Klein, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Joel Meyrowitz and many others.
Prior to the invention of 35mm rollfilm, cameras were huge and unwieldy. They were usually 4x5 plate and press cameras, and it was difficult to capture moments without blurring subjects. However, the Now York photographer known a Wegee The Famous managed to use a Speed Graphic 4x5 press camera to amazing effect. Weegee is famous for capturing crime scenes in New York City as they happened, he owned a police radio and had a gift for always being at the right moment at the right time. As a photo-journalist he became legend.
Due to this new smaller format and smaller cameras, many young photographers began to to use the street as a source of inspiration. The images they produced were hip, challenging and sometimes very dark and disturbing. Henri Carier Bresson could be considered the first to really utilize this new format, and is now considered to me the godfather of street photography.
The Swiss photographer Robert Frank produced a seminal photo-book in 1958, called The Americans. Frank took a road trip across the United States and photographed the streets on his journey. These photographs are very critical of American culture and predictive of the future of America's dominance throughout the world in the coming years.
One of the most important street photographers during the 1960s was William Klein. This New York City based photographers had a highly energetic and anarchic style, that reveals a darker side of New York City. Garry Winogrand was also very important; he was also New York based and is famous for his many photographs of the Central Park and Bronx zoos, where he took disturbing images.
Most of the street photographers of the 1930s to the 1960s photographed in black and white, but in the 1970s color photography finally became accepted as an artistic medium. It took sometime to get going and initially the use of color film was greeted by the same kind of disdain as Bob Dylan going electric.
Joel Mayrowitz and William Eggleston used color in street photography, Joel Mayrowitz believed in presenting the world in as much detail as possible and so wanted to shoot in color. He also turned to large format 8x10 inch cameras in order to capture as much detail as possible.
William Eggleston created color photographs of the Southern USA, and photographed what would normally be considered bland and uninteresting everyday objects and scenes in an incredibly beautiful way. Eggleston stated that he was "at war with the obvious"; his photographs are difficult to explain but are aesthetically so beautiful that they can simply be called art. Eggleston is though to be among the best and <A href="http://www.photographersdaily.net">famous street photographers</A>.
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Title: The Work Of Famous Street Photographers
Author: Paula Barron
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Keywords: photography, pictures, images, photos
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