“Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.” StreetsEatingPhotographyExcitingFishesFishingCatchingStreet Photography Author:Thomas Leuthard
“Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.” IfsArtStreetsCrimePleasePhotographyArt IsForgivingForgive MeGod ForgivesStreet PhotographyGod Forgive Me Author:Thomas Leuthard
“I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.” FeelsProblemMightStreetsFindingsPhotographyContemptAbusiveStreet PhotographyPhotojournalismObjectifying Author:Barbara Kruger
“One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.” BlackWhiteTeacherHappenedStreetsSubjectsNew YorkPaintingPhotographyLibraryPhotographRanClassroomBlack And WhiteTrashExhibitionsBlack And White Photography Author:Jose Parla
“It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.” CultureRaceStreetsPhotographyStreet Photography Author:Thomas Leuthard
“I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtTwoFallFeltInterestingStreetsMinesPhotographyAreasVagueDocumentariesMost InterestingStreet PhotographyPhotojournalism Author:Alex Webb
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.” MenMadeProcessDifferencesAttitudeTakenStreetsHe ManPaintingSkillsPhotographyPhotographInventionTraditionalSchemesSelectionSynthesis Author:John Szarkowski
“Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.” WayCitiesNovelStreetsStrangePhotographyDrawsAncientArchitectureGatesIntensitySquaresIllustrationPristineObviousness Author:Louis Aragon
“Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.” MenWorldFirstsStreetsEventsReaderPhotographyOrdinaryWindowPressesVillageOutlookShrinksOrdinary Man Author:Gisele Freund
“Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the way, while we've been talking I've now seen a total of three people I know walking on 8th street.” PeopleKnowsWayThreeTalkingStreetsWalkingPhotographyPolaroids Author:Laurel Nakadate
“After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in a studio, and that made an enormous difference in not only how photographs looked, but what they were about.” MadeWarUseDifferencesAliveStreetsPhotographyCamerasPhotographStudiosEnormous Author:Robert Benton
“Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.” MenWayArtIdeasLightMightFacesMovingFormStreetsBuildingPaperPhotographyPhotographerInventionRecognitionOld ManFreakAlchemyBlake Author:Duane Michals
“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.” KnowsTryingDoeWaitingWalksSecretKnownWatchesKnow HowStreetsWalkingApproachPhotographyPhotographerCornersHeatUnexpectedAround The Corner Author:Alex Webb
“The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.” FirstsHumansHeartMeanHas BeensArtOrderChallengesHuman BeingsCitiesMysteryStreetsPhotographyIntellectualMachinesBallsPhotographerObjectivesVisualsSensiblePortraitsSelectionFrameworkObjectivityCity StreetsBouncing Ball Author:Berenice Abbott
“I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.” ThinkingNeedsShouldMindBelieveLooksPhilosophyWalksStreetsParticularPhotographyNotionPhotographerPhotographGimmicksPreconceived Notions Author:Elliott Erwitt