Category / I.Introduction / Street Photography
Street smart- Street photography book by Ishay Lindenberg- Introduction
-
How to Start Street Photography in Berlin: A First Walk, Not a Checklist
Berlin can feel almost too easy to photograph. There are big surfaces, fast trains, long shadows, construction sites, tourists, club queues, markets, quiet courtyards and people moving between all of them. The difficult part is not finding a subject. It is slowing down enough to notice what is happening before you point the camera. For…
-
Street Photography Timeline: From Daguerre to Digital
A Short Timeline of Street Photography Street photography did not begin as one clean movement, and it has never had only one definition. It grew from photographers using the camera to record ordinary life in public: streets, shopfronts, work, leisure, chance encounters and the changing shape of cities. This short timeline gives you landmarks to…
-
Why Street Photography? A Way of Paying Attention
Why Make Street Photographs? Street photography is a way of paying attention to public life. It happens in the space between a plan and a surprise: a gesture, a reflection, a strange meeting of people and light, or the small theatre of an ordinary street. You do not need an exotic place for it. You…