The World Atlas of Street Photography

Jackie Higgins

Book - 2014

The energetic, fluctuating pace of the metropolis has long lured photographers to capture--often candidly--the chaos, character, and incident of modern urban life ever since the genesis of photography in the 19th century. The World atlas of street photography focuses on the abundance of photos created on street corners internationally, including classic documentary street photography as well as mediated images of urban landscapes, staged performances, and sculpture. Twelve specially commissioned artworks are featured, in addition to a wide selection of striking and well-known images of city life. Lively and informative, this handsome book compiles expressions of a vibrant genre and is the first of its kind to scour the globe--from New York ...to New Delhi, Beijing to Brighton, Havana to Hamburg, and Sydney to Seoul. This magnificently illustrated compilation of more than 700 images presents over one hundred established and emerging contemporary photographers, including Nikki S. Lee, Lise Sarfati, Jeff Wall, Daido Moriyama, Alexey Titarenko, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, David Goldblatt, and Julio Bittencourt, among many others. The World atlas of street photography offers a peek through the lenses of photographers chronicling the fever, furor, and intimacy of urban life.

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New Haven, CT : Yale University Press [2014]
[Place of publication not identified] : [2014]
Language
English
Main Author
Jackie Higgins (author)
Item Description
Includes index.
Photographers include: Francis Alÿs, Nobuyoshi Araki, Narelle Autio, Uta Barth, Olivo Barbieri, Yto Barrada, Matthew Baum, Dawoud Bey, Peter Bialobrzeski, Birdhead, Julio Bittencourt, Mohamed Bourouissa, Polly Braden, Serge Bratkov, Adam Broomberg, Andrew Bush, Sophie Calle, Edson Chagas, Yasmine Chatila, Oliver Chanarin, Gregory Crewdson, Maciej Dakowicz, Zhang Dali, Luc Delahaye, Philip-Lorca Dicorcia, Hans Eijkelboom, JH Engström, Essop Twins, Weng Fen, Ana Carolina Fernandes, Peter Funch, Bruce Gilden, David Goldblatt, Oscar Fernando Gómez, Paul Graham, Katy Grannan, Sunil Gupta, Cristóbal Hara, Naoya Hatakeyama, Bill Henson, Edi Hirose, Pieter Hugo, Michael Itkoff, Claudia Jaguaribe, Nils Jorgensen, Ahn Jun, Osamu Kanemura, Johnnie Shand Kydd, Nikki S. Lee, Sze Tsung Leong, Vera Lutter, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Melanie Manchot, Jesse Marlow, Mirko Martin, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Sabelo Mlangeni, Luis Molina-Pantin, Mimi Mollica, Daido Moriyama, Sohei Nishino, Trent Parke, Martin Parr, Jiang Pengyi, Max Pinckers, Gus Powell, Raghu Rai, Jo Ratcliff, Alisa Resnik, Doug Rickard, Thomas Ruff, Txema Salvans, Viviane Sassen, Tokihiro Sato, Boris Savelev, Slinkachu, Otto Snoek, Trine Søndergaard, Hannah Starkey, Joel Sternfeld, Beat Streuli, Matt Stuart, Mikhael Subotzy, Ying Tang, Guy Tillim, Wolfgang Tillmans, Alexey Titarenko, Cássio Vasconcellos, Nontsikelelo Veleko, Massimo Vitali, Jeff Wall, Gillian Wearing, Alex Webb, Wim Wenders, Richard Wentworth, Graeme Williams, Sue Williamson, Michael Wolf, Shizuka Yokomizo, Yang Yong.
Physical Description
399 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN
9780300207163
  • NORTH AMERICA : New York : Joel Meyerowitz - Yasmine Chatila - Gus Powell - Vera Lutter - New York by Ahn Jun - Matthew Baum - Peter Funch - Nikki S. Lee - Philip-Lorca Dicorcia - Bruce Gilden
  • Los Angeles : Mirko Martin - Uta Barth
  • Los Angeles by Olivo Barbieri - Andrew Bush - Katy Grannan
  • Chicago - Michael Wolf - Dawoud Bey - Doug Rickard (Detroit) - Paul Graham (Detroit) - Wim Wenders (Houston) - Jeff Wall (Vancouver)
  • -- LATIN AMERICA : Mexico City : Francis Alys - Mexico City by Alex Webb - Oscar Fernando Gomez (Monterrey) - Edi Hirose (Lima) - Claudia Jaguaribe (Rio de Janeiro) - Julio Bittencourt (Rio de Janeiro) - Ana Carolina Fernandes (Rio de Janeiro) - Sao Paulo by Julio Bittencourt - Cassio Vasconcellos (Sao Paulo) - Luis Molina-Pantin (Caracas)
  • - EUROPE : London - Gillian Wearing - Slinkachu - Richard Wentworth - London by Rut Blees Luxemburg - Shizuka Yokomizo - Hannah Starkey - Wolfgang Tillmans - Polly Braden - Matt Stuart - Nils Jorgensen - Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin (Belfast)
  • Paris - Jh Engstrom - Luc Delahaye - Mohamed Bourouissa - Sophie Calle (Venice) - Massimo Vitali (Venice) - Gregory Crewdson (Rome) - Johnnie Shand Kydd (Naples) - Cristobal Hara (Xinzo De Limia) - Txema Salvans (Valencia)
  • Berlin : Alisa Resnik - Sue Williamson - Berlin by Vera Lutter - Thomas Ruff (Dusseldorf) - Hans Eijkelboom (Amsterdam) - Otto Snoek (Rotterdam) - Trine Sondergaard (Copenhagen) - Alex Webb (Istanbul) - Olivo Barbieri (Istanbul)
  • Moscow : Boris Savelev - Moscow by Slinkachu - Melanie Manchot - Sergey Bratkov - Alexey Titarenko (St Petersburg) - Boris Mikhailov (Kharkov)
  • - AFRICA : Johannesburg - Sabelo Mlangeni - Nontsikelelo Veleko - Johannesburg by Sue Williamson - Graeme Williams - Mikhael Subotzky - Essop Twins (Cape Town) - David Goldblatt (Cape Town) Jo Ractliffe (Durban) - Guy Tillim (Libreville) - Pieter Hugo (Lagos) - Viviane Sassen (Moshi) - Edson Chagas (Luanda) - Rut Blees Luxemburg (Dakar) - Mimi Mollica (Dakar) - Yto Barrada (Tangier)
  • - AUSTRALIA : Trent Parke (Sydney) - Narelle Autio (Sydney) - Beat Streuli (Sydney) - Sydney by Narelle Autio
  • Melbourne : Bill Henson - Jesse Marlow
  • ASIA : Sohei Nishino (Jerusalem) - Birdhead (Shanghai) - Ying Tang (Shanghai)
  • Beijing : Sze Tsung Leong - Jiang Pengyi - Zhang Dali - Weng Fen (Shenzhen) - Shenzhen by Polly Braden - Yang Yong (Shenzhen)
  • Tokyo : Daido Moriyama - Nobuyoshi Araki - Naoya Hatakeyama - Tokihiro Sato - Osamu Kanemura
  • Delhi : Raghu Rai - Sunil Gupta - Maciej Dakowicz (Mumbai) - Max Pinckers (Mumbai) - Peter Bialobrzeski (Manila) - Joel Sternfeld (Dubai) - Martin Parr (Dubai) - Ahn Jun (Seoul) - Michael Itkoff (Hanoi)
  • North America
  • Latin America
  • Europe
  • Africa
  • Australia
  • Asia.
Review by Choice Review

Several titles on the market address street photography from different perspectives. Most titles speak to techniques for this genre of photography or showcase talent and portfolios. This volume, which is in the latter category, is excellent in terms of the number of established photographers showcased, its (international) geographic scope, and the details provided for the photographers and their artwork. Written by journalist and filmmaker Higgins, this book is organized by five continents and then by 50-plus cities. It highlights "established and emerging contemporary artists" and aims to locate "the world's best urban photographic art." Readers will find full color samples of each artist's work along with biographical information; entries help students understand the uniqueness of this genre within the parent medium of photography. The book's perspectives, coupled with the study of other titles that speak to technique, should pave a path to clear understanding and appreciation of the genre and of street photography as social commentary. Readers may also want to consider Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz's Bystander: A History of Street Photography (1993) and Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren's Street Photography Now (2010). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, two-year technical program students, professionals, and general readers. --John C. Burns, Dixie State University

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

The long shared history of photography and urbanity arrives at an exciting contemporary (and international) moment through this vibrant volume. Arranged into global regions and then further segmented into urban centers, the book becomes both an exploration of place and of contemporary photography. Brief introductions to the most dominant cities chart the specifics of photographic development within it, then give way to several-page considerations of contemporary practitioners. Street photography is defined inclusively, allowing that reportage and conceptual works all find comfortable homes in the art form as it is defined, Nikki S. Lee's projects of public performance art in New York City receiving the same consideration as Nontsikelelo Veleko's Johannesburg-based fashion photography. The images are beautiful, produced with the same vibrant attention that the text directs toward each celebrated photographer. It is rare for collections like this to pull off such simultaneous breadth and depth, yet this resource of over 100 artists succeeds, edifying and captivating throughout. Color illus. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.