The World Atlas of Street Photography

Better than expected... Very pleased ! Great insight into the variety of street photography

Great collection separated by location. Some beautiful photos I had never seen before and artists I've never heard of. Love looking through it for inspiration.However, this is not all street photography.The author fails to make the distiction between street photography and fine photographic style art.Many of the artist in this collection stage their work and use editing software to modify the content of their images. This is ok for fine art, but this is NOT photography. It is photographic art.Street photography at it's core is candid. Photos that are not candid are not street. Photos which contents are altered is not photography.Great collection of photographic art all the same, but not being a fan of doctored images, it's not the best street photography book.

Given the size and scope of the book I was expecting more, but I did not find much of interest here, maybe because because it was focused on being global.

Great pictures with wonderful history and explanation. Fun and educational read.

Jackie Higgins has a strange idea of what street photography is, and though there are some good photographs in this book there are vanishingly few street photographs. Both Ms. Higgins and Max Kozloff have the idea that street photography is confined to urban areas and streets, an idea that won't hold up under examination.A picture of a street is not street photography. A picture of someone on a street is not street photography. A picture of a building is not street photography. A picture of a group of buildings with a street included is not a street photograph. An informal portrait is not street photography. In most instances a picture of a hobo sleeping on a street is not street photography. In general, posed photographs are not street photography.To understand what street photography actually is you need to go back to the people who originated it and defined it: Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Walker Evans, Elliott Erwitt, Marc Riboud, Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, and others of that era. If you look at the work of these originators you'll find that street photography is about how people are: not as they are after they've been hassled and not as they are when they're posing, and it's about the interaction of people with each other and with their environment. The very best street photographs include ambiguity, and convey something that words simply can't convey. Streets actually are rare in the best street photography, and a very large percentage of the best street photographs weren't made in urban areas.Too bad. This could have been a marvelous book. As it is, it leaves a great deal to be desired.

The contents are FANTASTIC however I bought the book new and there was a scratch like mark along the front cover underneath the cover protector

Wow!

Was informative, spent too much time on people using cute tricks rather than actual street photography. Worth a read.mariak

Ok maybe there are too many photobooks that we need an idea to sell another one, here the idea is the geographic atlas, nice one but the final result is dubious. Too many words, too many photographers, too many technical experiments and not so many inspirational street pix (imho)

Superbe livre. Cependant la couverture papier de ce dernier est arrivé déchirée à deux endroits. Ce qui pour un produit neuf envoyé par le site est fort dommageable... déçu du coup...