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Bystander : a history of street photography
- Title
- Bystander : a history of street photography / Colin Westerbeck, Joel Meyerowitz.
- Author
- Westerbeck, Colin
- Publication
- Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1994]
- ©1994
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TR820.5 .W46 1993 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 430 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
- Summary
- This landmark book chronicles the development of a kind of photography that is created out of the energy and chance juxtapositions found in everyday life on the street. Street photography is at the heart of what makes photography unique. An unprecedented study that is the first history of this tradition ever published, Bystander explores street photography through a discussion of the medium's masters - Atget, Stieglitz, Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Kertesz, Evans, Levitt, Frank, Arbus, Winogrand, and many others - and reveals along the way much about the craft and creative process of photography. Profusely illustrated with the work of more than eighty photographers, the book is composed of four parts separated by lively folios of pictures. Each part discusses a different era - from the early days of the medium in nineteenth-century Europe, to America in the late twentieth century - and devotes entire chapters to the key figures of that period.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- History
- Pictorial works
- Illustrated works.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- "A Bulfinch Press Book"
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-422) and index.
- Contents
- Eugène Atget & the nineteenth century : Before photography ; In the beginning ; The view from abroad ; Busmen's holidays ; Art for art's sake ; Documents for artists -- Cartier-Bresson & Europe in the twentieth century : Children of the century ; The decisive photographer ; Hungarian rhapsody ; Foreign correspondents ; The fourth estate -- Walker Evans & America before the war : Social uplift ; Collective vision ; American classic -- Robert Frank & America since the war : Displaced persons ; Naturalized citizens ; An American in Paris ; In the American grain ; The Chicago school ; Still going.
- ISBN
- 0821217550
- 9780821217559
- 0821227262
- 9780821227268
- LCCN
- 93014900
- OCLC
- ocm27770071
- 27770071
- SCSB-9229235
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library