Street Photography

Street photography is perhaps the best-loved and most widely known of all photographic genres, with names like Cartier-Bresson, Brassai and Doisneau familiar even to those with a fleeting knowledge of the medium

Auteur

Clive Scott is Professor of European Literature, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia. His books include The Spoken Image: Photography and Language and Translating Baudelaire.

Contenu

Illustrations, introduction 1 out of the studio into the street 2 the street-photographic and the documentary 3 street arts and street métiers 4 street photography: the appropriateness of language and an appropriate language 5 streets, buildings and the gendered city, conclusion