This is a list of notable street photographers. Street photography is photography conducted for art or enquiry that presents unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Street photography does not need the backdrop of a street or even an urban environment. Though people are usually present, street photography may lack people and can be of an object or environment where the image projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic.Colin Westerbeck. Bystander: A History of Street Photography. Little, Brown and Company, 1994.
Street photographers
Jun Abe (1955–)"Masters of photography gather in new festival in Beşiktaş", Today's Zaman, 19 October 2014, as archived by the Wayback Machine on 9 February 2016. "Twenty-eight renowned photographers from around the world, including . . . Japanese street photographer Jun Abe, are foreign guests of [Fotoistanbul, the First Beşiktaş International Festival of Photography]". Berenice Abbott (1898–1991)Erika Lederman, "Street Photography", pp. 288–291 of Juliet Hacking, ed., Photography: The Whole Story (New York: Prestel, 2012; ). "Using acute angles and a graphic style to capture the poetry in the relationship between the old and new New York, Abbott created intensely subjective images with a Surrealist eye. . . ." Christophe Agou (1969–2015)Rachel Lowry, "In memoriam: Remembering the photographers we lost in 2015 ", time.com, 31 December 2015. Agou is described as a "French documentary photographer and street photographer living in NYC". Accessed 9 February 2017.Work by this photographer is presented in Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, eds, Street Photography Now (London: Thames & Hudson, 2010, ; London: Thames & Hudson, 2011, ). The complete list of photographers introduced: Christophe Agou, Gary Alexander, Arif Aşçı, Narelle Autio, Bang Byoung-Sang, Polly Braden, Maciej Dakowicz, Carolyn Drake, Melanie Einzig, Peter Funch, George Georgiou, David Gibson, Bruce Gilden, Thierry Girard, Andrew Glickman, Siegfried Hansen, Cristóbal Hara, Markus Hartel, Nils Jorgensen, Richard Kalvar, Osamu Kanemura, Martin Kollar, Jens Olof Lasthein, Frederic Lezmi, Stephen McLaren, Jesse Marlow, Mirko Martin, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Mimi Mollica, Trent Parke, Martin Parr, Gus Powell, Mark Alor Powell, Bruno Quinquet, Raghu Rai, Paul Russell, Boris Savelev, Otto Snoek, Matt Stuart, Ying Tang, Alexey Titarenko, Nick Turpin, Lars Tunbjörk, Jeff Wall, Munem Wasif, Alex Webb, Richard Wentworth, Amani Willett, Michael Wolf, Artem Zhitenev, Wolfgang Zurborn. See "The book ", Street Photography Now Project. Daniel Arnold John Benton-Harris (1939–) Richard Bram (1952–) Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–1993)"Lola Alvarez Bravo " (exhibition notice), Aperture Foundation, 2006. "Alvarez Bravo was a photojournalist, portraitist, and street photographer. . . ." Accessed 11 February 2017. Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002)Pilar Caballero-Alías, "The unexpected Surrealist: Manuel Álvarez Bravo's photopoetry ", Latin American Research Centre, University of Calgary. "Photographs of quirky shapes or word-image games encountered in everyday street life allow us to revisit Manuel Álvarez Bravo's photography and read his photographs according to Surrealist premises. . . ." Accessed 11 February 2017. Blake Andrews (1968–)Aline Smithson, "Common ground: New American street photography at drkrm ", Lenscratch, 8 July 2013. Andrews is described as one of five "highly-accomplished American street photographers". Accessed 9 February 2017. Emmy Andriesse (1914–1953)Anneke van Veen, "'I saw a plastic bag': Photography and urbanism, 1852–2000." Chapter 4 of Frits Giertsberg, et al, Dutch Eyes: A Critical History of Photography in the Netherlands (Zwolle: Uitgeverij Waanders, 2007; ). "In the 1930s Emmy Andriesse was the first of a new generation of humanistic photographers to make and register contact with the passers-by they photographed and thus produce sensitive street portraits" (p 284). Nobuyoshi Araki (1940–)Kaori Shoji, "Photographic portal to a secret, bygone world ", Japan Times, 14 October 2015. "Araki has retained a particular love for street photography. Now 75, he still loves to prowl around the streets of Shinjuku and Ikebukuro with his old camera." Accessed 10 February 2017.Work by this photographer is presented in Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson, eds, Open City: Street Photographs since 1950 (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2001, ; Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 2001, ); a book accompanying exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, May–July 2001; The Lowry, Manchester, October 2001 – January 2002; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, June–September 2002. The photographers introduced: Nobuyoshi Araki, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Terence Donovan, William Eggleston, Nigel Henderson, William Klein, Nikki Lee, Susan Meiselas, Daidō Moriyama, Catherine Opie, Tazio Secchiaroli, Allan Sekula, Raghubir Singh, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall, Garry Winogrand. Diane Arbus (1923–1971)Work by this photographer is presented in Deborah Klochko and Andy Grundberg, eds, Streetwise: Masters of 60s Photography (San Francisco: Modernbook, 2010, ). The complete list of photographers introduced: Diane Arbus, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Jerry Berndt, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Danny Lyon, Garry Winogrand, Ernest Withers. The book accompanied an exhibition at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, February–May 2011. See W. S. Di Piero, "The way we were ", San Diego Reader, 11 May 2011; Barbara Schreiber, "Depth of field: Streetwise: Masters of 60s Photography ", Creative Loafing Charlotte, 6 December 2011.Carolina A. Miranda, "Photography's best-kept secret: How Anthony Hernandez put a distinctly Los Angeles lens on picture-making ", Los Angeles Times, 23 September 2016. "For much of the 20th century, street photography was often associated with the dense cities of Europe and the Northeastern United States — particularly New York, where figures such as Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson and Helen Levitt elevated the act of the impromptu street shot into high art. But Hernandez — now 69, and looking stately with a crown of white hair — helped give the form a distinctly Los Angeles cast." Accessed 16 February 2017. Eugène Atget (1857–1927)Sean O'Hagan, "Why street photography is facing a moment of truth ", The Guardian, 18 April 2010. "[M]any of the great pioneers of photography – Eugène Atget, Brassai, André Kertész, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Robert Frank – could all be considered street photographers of one kind or another. . . ." Accessed 10 February 2017. Alice Austen (1866–1952)Sarah Goodyear, "The original New York street photographer ", CityLab, 26 July 2013. "[Austen] took thousands of pictures, from formal portraits to candid street shots, collecting many of the latter into an 1894 portfolio called 'Street Types of New York'. The 'Street Types' were in essence her guided tour to the city's human festival, depicting fishmongers, policemen, knife-grinders, and dozens of other characters that could be found on the city's teeming sidewalks." Accessed 11 February 2017. Narelle Autio (1969–) Shirley Baker (1932–2014)"Laughter in the slums: the best work of street photographer Shirley Baker – in pictures ", The Guardian, 8 October 2014. Accessed 10 February 2017."A view through the urban eye of Charlie Phillips at Nottingham's New Art Exchange ", Culture24, 19 April 2013. "'[Charlie Phillips's] work is as significant as great chroniclers of everyday street life,' [Paul Goodwin] says, comparing the artist with eastern Europe observer Markéta Luskačová, 1960s northern documenter Shirley Baker and Tom Wood. . . . Accessed 21 February 2017. James Barnor (1929–)Colin Pantall, "James Barnor: Ever Young ", Colin Pantall's blog, 17 November 2015. "[Barnor's book] Ever Young is an eclectic mix of studio portraits, press images, fashion and street photography and a broad introduction to how photography was used and expanded in Ghana and beyond." Accessed 12 February 2017. Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997) Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930–)"Gianni Berengo Gardin: Vera Fotografia ", Rome Museum Guide, 2016. "[Berengo Gardin] tells the story of political and social changes that have marked the history of the country, as well as providing images of life on the streets and accidental encounters." Accessed 19 February 2017. Lou Bernstein (1911–2005)David Gonzalez, "Reprising the storefront gallery of the greats ", The New York Times, 8 January 2014. "That first show [by Larry Siegel in the Image Gallery] was a study in contrasts — Mr. [Lou] Bernstein's street photographs and Mr. [Fred] Plaut's photos of musicians signed to Columbia Records." Accessed 12 February 2017. Dimpy Bhalotia (1987–) Valentine Blanchard (1831–1901)"London Street Photography", Museum of London, 2011, archived by the Wayback Machine on 22 March 2011. Blanchard "[produced] the first photographs of busy city streets in which everything in motion was arrested in sharp definition". Dorothy Bohm (1924–2023)John Gulliver, "How photographer Dorothy is still snapping the streets at 93 ", Camden New Journal, 21 April 2016. "Known over the years as a 'street photographer', . . ." Accessed 2 March 2017.Dorothy Bohm, quoted in Alice E. Vincent, "Dorothy Bohm interview: 'I remember every photograph I take' ", Huffington Post, 22 November 2012. "When I'm called a street photographer I think it's quite insulting, but that's ok." Accessed 2 March 2017. Boogie (1969–)Mikko Takkunen, "PJL: July 2013 (Part 1)", Time Lightbox, 8 July 2013. "Serbian photographer Boogie, known for his street photography from all over the world, . . ." Accessed 6 March 2017. David Bradford (1951–)"Drive by shootings: NYC movies in 15 seconds ", Jack Shainman Gallery. "A New York City taxi driver by trade, Bradford has developed his practice behind the wheel of his cab, shooting New York's streets for the past fifteen years." Accessed 11 March 2017. Adrian Bradshaw (1964–) Bill Brandt (1904–1983)Erika Lederman, "Street Photography", pp. 288–291 of Juliet Hacking, ed., Photography: The Whole Story (New York: Prestel, 2012; ). "London was the primary setting of the street photographs of Bill Brandt. . . ." Brassaï (1899–1984) Giacomo Brunelli (1977–) Harry Callahan (1912–1999)"Harry Callahan: The Street ", Vancouver Art Gallery "[The exhibition] Harry Callahan: The Street features 140 of these black and white and colour images, which Callahan made in the streets of Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Cairo, Mexico, Portugal and Wales. . . ." Accessed 2 March 2017. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) Vivian Cherry (1920–2019 Mark Cohen (1943–)Max Campbell, "Mark Cohen's close-up street photography ", New Yorker, 11 May 2016. Accessed 12 February 2017. Joan Colom (1921–2017)Eduardo Cadava and Gabriela Nouzeilles, "In depth: The itinerant languages of photography ", Princeton University Art Museum. "The third section, 'Itinerant Subjects,' [of the exhibition The Itinerant Languages of Photography] . . . draws materials from the Fundación Foto Colectania in Barcelona and for the first time introduces to the American public the work of the street photographer Joan Colom. . . ." Accessed 12 February 2017. Martha Cooper (1943–)"Graffiti, Games and Hip-Hop Culture: Finding Art on the Street", The New York Times, April 18, 2017. Accessed 4 August 2017. Ted Croner (1922–2005)"The streets of New York: American photographs from the collection, 1938–1958" (PDF), National Gallery of Art. "Ted Croner's boldly graphic images of New York skyscrapers, speeding taxis, and cafeterias evoke the dynamism but also the desolation of modern urban life." Accessed 26 February 2017. Bill Cunningham (1929–2016) Maciej Dakowicz (1976–)