Photographers who work in public places, catching unposed moments of city life, a tradition associated with the decisive moment and with black-and-white city photography in Paris, New York and Tokyo. A photographer belongs here when the cited article names street photography as the artist's genre. It excludes documentary photographers working on assigned social subjects. The work is usually made on foot with a small camera, in cities where strangers pass without posing, and a photographer is placed here by the genre the cited article names, not by a single city or decade.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson - Wikipedia
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He pioneered the genre of street photography and viewed capturing what he named the decisive moment as the essence of the very best pictures.
Wikipedia: Weegee
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Arthur Fellig (born Ascher Fellig; June 12, 1899, December 26, 1968), known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City.
Wikipedia: Daido Moriyama
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Daidō Moriyama (Japanese: 森山 大道, Hepburn: Moriyama Daidō; born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine Provoke.
Wikipedia: Garry Winogrand
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Critic Sean O'Hagan wrote in 2014 that in "the 1960s and 70s, he defined street photography as an attitude as well as a style, and it has laboured in his shadow ever since, so definitive are his photographs of New York"; and in 2010 that though he photographed elsewhere, "Winogrand was essentially
Wikipedia: Vivian Maier
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She writes that Maier's work "may add to the history of 20th-century street photography by summing it up with an almost encyclopedic thoroughness, veering close to just about every well-known photographer you can think of, including Weegee, Robert Frank and Richard Avedon, and then sliding off in another direction.
The Art Story (theartstory.org): The Art Story: Robert Frank
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Movements and Styles: Documentary Photography , Street Photography , Straight Photography
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