Street photography

Street photography is a genre designation of photography which includes numerous photographers and styles. Generally it refers to a photograph that arises in public space, in looking on streets, in shops or cafes, passers-by groups or individuals out across, often as a snapshot, but just as essay -like sequence and social study. Already Atget's photographs of Paris and its suburbs of street photography can be attributed.

The heyday began in the 1930s with the possibilities of faster, more compact film cameras, the advent of magazines and the increased interest in the everyday life and its facets. Especially the genre of street photography has produced outstanding picture books, including, for example, Henri Cartier -Bresson's Images à la Sauvette (1952 ), Robert Frank's The Americans (1959 ) or, more recently, Bruce Davidson's Subway ( 1986), Saul conductor Early Colors (2006).

Street photographs rank compositionally - style of documentary strict shooting up to grainy, blurry or deliberately tilted views, daring perspectives and distorting reflections. The differences between documentary and so-called creative photography has been questioned especially by photographers such as Lee Friedlander and William Klein.

Criteria for street photography

There is no exact definition of street photography.

The criteria are:

  • A street photograph shows a situation of the moment, which will not appear exactly so again, although the nature of this situation beyond the moment have and " reflect the essence of time and place " should be: " The detention of a particular moment is the high art of street photography, but an equally important role, the reaction of the special atmosphere of any place. "
  • Most people are shown in a scene of the outside or situation; However, images of empty spaces can meet the aforementioned criteria.
  • The situation is authentic and has a documentary character. As a demarcation to documentary photography the author calls Clive Scott the following features: Documentary photography focused on a specific subject or subject, while street photography often occupies a peripheral, incidental viewing angle - so that the viewer the question arises as to who is the subject of the scene.
  • Street photography shows the random, documentary photography the fateful moment.
  • Documentary Photography urge the viewer to vote, street photography, let him have the freedom of personal interpretation.
  • Documentary Photography urge the viewer into a confrontation, street photography allowed him the position of the distanced, often even ironic observer.

A critical examination of this can be found at Michael Mahlke. Other aspects, ratings, and examples can be found at:

  • Andreas Stelter.
  • Till Schramm.
  • Eric Kim called a plethora of online references on the subject.
  • Martin Gommel recommends a bibliography of picture books.

International street photographer

German street photographers

  • Chargesheimer
  • Siegfried Hansen
  • Andreas Herzau
  • Friedrich Seidenstücker
  • Zurborn

Street photographers groupings

  • Seconds2real / German - Austrian group
  • Echie / Dutch group
  • Un - posed / Polish group
  • In - public / international group
  • Public life / international group
  • Street photographers / international group
  • Burn My Eye / international group

Legal

In Germany, the receipt of persons by the general right of the depicted from Article 2, Paragraph 1 in conjunction. Art 1 para 1 of the Basic Law. and the publication of public scenes limited by the right to their own image.

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