Bystander: a history of street photography

[johnastovall]

I've just finished reading for the second time in as many weeks, Bystander: a history of street photography: with a new afterward on street photography since the 1970's by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz.

If you have the lest interest in street photograph, get and read this book. It's a comprehensive history of "street photography" starting with Negre in Paris of the 1850's and ending with emerging photographers of the '90's, Matt Harnet, Giorgio Barrera, and Ciro Schiappa.

The text and images will educate, fill with wonder and leave you with new ways of seeing and thinking about the genre of the street.

This is a five star book for both the text and images.