Street Photography: LensCulture’s Guide to Making and Sharing Remarkable Street Photography

86 Pages·2019·9.88 MB·English

by  LensCulture

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Introduction
What comes to mind
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photography?
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popularity in recent years.
Inside these pages, you’ll find interviews and
In both aesthetic and approach, street recommendations from top street photographers,
photography has expanded and evolved so editors and curators. Get to know some of the
much that it can be difficult to find a singular greats of the genre alongside new voices using
definition for all of the street-based images street photography as a process. Thank you for
being made around the world today. downloading and enjoy!
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Introduction
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Table of Contents
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TAKE IT TO THE STREETS SHARE YOUR STREETS INSPIRATION
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8 Street photography as a process: 33 Submit your work: Competitions 61 Photographs from the lt
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14 In search of poets and new masters: 35 Feedback, workshops and reviews:
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27 Time, patience and repetition: publisher Dewi Lewis
Interview with photographer
53 Shining a light on absurd moments:
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Interview with photographer Feng Li
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The secret to compelling
street photographs is
ethical acknowledgement
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Director of Market Photo Workshop
2019 Street Awards Juror
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love for the unexpected, candid moments of life, an ability to
find some order within the joyous chaos of the world, and an
unparalleled creative vision.
In this chapter, we explore different approaches to making
remarkable street photography. If you want to make images
that deftly combine composition, light and content to reflect
the world in a way we haven’t seen before, read on.
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AN ESSAY BY
PHOTOGRAPHER
AND EDUCATOR
SERGE J-F. LEVY
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Street photography is both
Over the past 20 years, I have been creating, teaching and
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on its own. This is what sets street photography apart from
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