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Title: Bystander: A History of Street Photography by Colin/Meyerowitz Westerbeck ISBN: 0-8212-2726-2 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: street photography descibed in detail
Comment: A history of street photography described in both text and photos. The authors are well knowledged in the field and provide a very well layed out book that is enjoyable to read. A great coffee table book.
Rating: 4
Summary: it's the photos...
Comment: BYSTANDER embraces the social & cultural history of street photography. It touches upon the works of master photographers, yet leaves out so much about the actual photographs.
Trying to follow Meyerowitz's & Westerbeck's conversation, both obviously deeply emotional about the subject of street photography, simply went over my head in a rush of technical details & passionate positing as to why which photographer did what.
It is, however, the photographs in BYSTANDER that draw you back, again & again. The earliest ones that beg to have been enlarged, so rich in texture & composition; the later ones with their implicit social commentaries.
When we say that a picture is worth a thousand words, we're not kidding! Each & every photograph, even those that I couldn't make head nor tail, tell stories of our predecessors' lives & times, letting social history unravel before our eyes.
BYSTANDER is for everyone who loves to look at the past - the everyday, angular, shadow & light city past, through the window of a camera.
Rating: 4
Summary: well done...
Comment: first off, the authors do a fine job presenting to the reader an insightful history of street photography. they especially succeeded in explaining (or at least theorizing) how the various photographers came to create their respective photographic styles by finding sources of influence in modern art, architecture, and of course each other.
although there are other reviewers who believe the authors didn't give enough credit to hcb for shaping street photography into what it is today, it is important to note that even in the chapters which focus on the american photographers hcb is continuously cited as a major influence. just remember that this book is a history of street photography, not a bio of hcb!
i also agree with the reviewer who thought the photo placement within the book was a little inconvenient at times. but that minor problem does in no way detract from the overall value of such an insightful look at the history of street photography. enjoy!
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Title: Looking At Photographs by John Szarkowski ISBN: 0821226231 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 28 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: The Americans by Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac ISBN: 3931141802 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Winogrand: Figments from the Real World by Garry Winogrand, John Szarkowski ISBN: 0870706357 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World: A Retrospective by Philippe Arbaizar, Jean Clair, Claude Cookman, Robert Delpire, Peter Galassi, Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Jean Leymarie, Serge Toubiana, Henri Cartier-Bresson ISBN: 0500542678 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: William Klein: Paris + Klein by William Klein, Lane Anthony ISBN: 1891024698 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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