What is Street Photography?

"There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture.  Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.  That is the moment the photographer is creative.  Oops!  The Moment!  Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”  - henri cartier-bresson

For me, there is nothing that gives me more pleasure or is as exciting as walking the streets of New York City with camera in hand and John Coltrane on my iPhone blasting in my ears.   - garth

Below are some video clips that should give you an idea and a feel for what Street Photography is all about.  Several clips are from the excellent 90 min. video,  "Everybody Street" directed by Cheryl Dunn and produced by Cheryl Dunn and Lucy Cooper.  I highly recommend renting or purchasing this Vimeo on Demand video if you are at all interested in Street Photography and its artist practitioners,  http://everybodystreet.com

"Why do some photographers go to the street and other photographers go to the studio?  Some people want to pretend it's a movie and other photographers walk into the world and say, "show me!"   - joel meyerowitz

“Everybody Street” - video documentary by Cheryl Dunn illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. http://everybodystreet.com

"I don’t think you can develop or learn a “way of seeing” or a “point of view.”  A “way of seeing” is who you are, how you think and how you create images.  It is something that is inside of you.  It’s how you look at the world."  - mary ellen mark

“Everybody Street” - video documentary by Cheryl Dunn illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. http://everybodystreet.com

"If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph."  - bruce gilden

“Everybody Street” - video documentary by Cheryl Dunn illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. http://everybodystreet.com