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Street Photography Now is a survey book of contemporary street photography, edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren and published by Thames & Hudson in 2010. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] It includes work by 56 photographers. Blake Andrews described the book as "the first broad street photography book to be published since Bystander in 1994". [6] Between 2010 and 2012, a series of exhibitions were held in Europe with work from the book.

Contents

Book content

Street Photography Now includes portfolios of work and biographies of Christophe Agou, Gary Alexander, Arif Aşçı  [ Wikidata ], Narelle Autio, Bang Byoung-Sang, Polly Braden, Maciej Dakowicz, Carolyn Drake, Melanie Einzig, Peter Funch, Thierry Girard  [ Wikidata ], Andrew Glickman, George Georgiou, David Gibson, Bruce Gilden, Siegfried Hansen, Cristóbal Hara, Markus Hartel, Nils Jorgensen, Richard Kalvar, Osamu Kanemura, Martin Kollar, Jens Olof Lasthein, Frederic Lezmi, Stephen McLaren, Jesse Marlow, Mirko Martin, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Mimi Mollica, Trent Parke, Martin Parr, Gus Powell, Mark Alor Powell, Bruno Quinquet, Raghu Rai, Paul Russell, Boris Savelev, Otto Snoek, Matt Stuart, Ying Tang, Alexey Titarenko, Lars Tunbjörk, Nick Turpin, Jeff Wall, Munem Wasif, Alex Webb, Richard Wentworth, Amani Willett, Michael Wolf, Artem Zhitenev and Wolfgang Zurborn  [ Wikidata ]. It also includes four essays [7] and a transcript of a conversation between Lezmi, Marlow, Alor Powell, Gus Powell, Russell, Tang and Turpin.

The selection of photographers seemed biased to Andrews:

. . . Street Photography Now seems intimately tied to the web. . . . The selection of photographers seems young, global, and web-savvy, with a substantial dose of HCSP, [n 1] Flickr, and In-Public members. / Meanwhile, some street stalwarts who aren't daily participants in the online world are left out, e.g., Charles Traub, Sylvia Plachy, Daido Moriyama, [Lee] Friedlander, and Henry Wessel, not to mention the patron saint of candid street photography, Elliott Erwitt. Joel Meyerowitz is included even though he hasn't been an active street shooter for 40 years. [6]

Andrews also noted "various citation snafus", pointing to two descriptions of this as plagiarism. [8] [9]

Project

The accompanying Street Photography Now Project was a year-long collaboration between McLaren, Howarth and The Photographers' Gallery. [10] The project was open to the public and participants were "invited to contribute a photograph each week following a weekly instruction" by a photographer. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

Exhibitions

Publication details

Notes

  1. ↑ "Hardcore Street Photography", a Flickr group; it is described in Andrew Kochanowski, "Contemporary street photography: Where can I find the good stuff?," The Online Photographer, 27 November 2012.

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References

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  6. 1 2 Andrews, Blake (29 November 2010). "B: Street Photography Now" . Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  7. ↑ "Street photography now". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  8. ↑ Michael David Murphy, "Street Photography Now fails to cite sources", 2point8, 30 September 2010. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 18 July 2011.
  9. ↑ Mike Johnston, "Recent books of interest 2", The Online Photographer, 22 October 2010. See also "More on Street Photography Now", The Online Photographer, 24 October 2020. Accessed 6 August 2020.
  10. 1 2 Berning, Dale (5 August 2011). "Photography: Britain through a lens". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2020-08-02.
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  13. ↑ "Street Photography Now Project". What Digital Camera . 30 September 2010. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  14. ↑ Coomes, Phil (30 September 2011). "Fifty-two weeks on the streets". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  15. ↑ Coomes, Phil. "Right Here, Right Now: At the Format Festival in Derby". BBC. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
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  17. ↑ "Contributed Studio for the Arts". In-Public. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
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