Bystander: A History of Street Photography
Bulfinch Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Item #432508
ISBN: 0821217550
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom. Page block is slightly bowed at top. Dust jacket has very minor shelf wear. Still a very nice copy.
This landmark book chronicles the development of a kind of photography that is created out of the energy and chance juxtapositions found in everyday life on the street. Street photography is at the heart of what makes photography unique. An unprecedented study that is the first history of this tradition ever published, Bystander explores street photography through a discussion of the medium's masters - Atget, Stieglitz, Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Kertesz, Evans, Levitt, Frank, Arbus, Winogrand, and many others - and reveals along the way much about the craft and creative process of photography. Profusely illustrated with the work of more than eighty photographers, the book is composed of four parts separated by lively folios of pictures. Each part discusses a different era - from the early days of the medium in nineteenth-century Europe, to America in the late twentieth century - and devotes entire chapters to the key figures of that period.
Price: $25.00