History of street photography

Henri Riviere- Un couple restaurant dans un batiment public 1885-1895

Photograph that Henri has took looks as if he focused on the women's dress showing her movement in a way her dress creases to her path of walking and just about got enough room to place her umbrella into shot he may have want to do this to show what weather he was shooting. The colouring in the photograph 

Paul Strand- wall street, New York 1915

This image is interesting as everyone is following the same path all neatly and quite narrow not scattered like a crowd making the pathway an important walk by. The shadows created from cleverly thinking where the light is shining and position himself and camera vertically towards the silhouette people and luckily the lighting he was taken place creating shadows behind people looking like they are getting the viewers eyes on those shadows. 

Alfred Stieglitz- A snapshot Paris 1911

Looks like this image is shot in a rainy day as the grounds are all patchy and showing shiny splodges underneath subjects showing wetness. It's good how the photographer hasn't cropped anything out as it gives image a wider outlook which gives more scenes to look out for. 

    

Bandit’s Roost, New York, 1888, by Jacob A. Riis 

This image looks like the photographer planned his shot as everyone is staring at him even the people inside their houses looking out and putting an expression on face ' what the heck is going on here?'

Bruce Davidson

                              1950s gangs of Brooklyn

The 1950s gangs of Brooklyn photo I quite like as two teenagers are oblivious that a photographer is taking a shot of them as they look busy daydreaming or just staring at something intriguing around them unless photographer asked if he could take a picture of them and just act normally just pretend you haven't met me. The picture questions me why on earth did he want to take this shot what was his attention, was something happening and he wanted to focus on their expressions of the scene they are seeing which looks to me one teen is like "yeah this happens all the time nothing special, middle one looking like she is in a daydream but think her expression is saying "really! you had to be an idiot", the girl on the end slightly cropped looks like shes seen enough and just looking away hoping to see something interesting put her off what she has just seen.

This image has a lot of colour blends as guy with gun weirdly has clothing matching with train door colours and makes you think on what the photographer has felt taking this picture at that moment of action. The graffiti in this image set in a train is blending with gun guy as his coat has some symbols going on which maybe important to him.  

Harry's window shopping stall showing a repetition of passing one by one and some cars reflection overlapping on top of other and slight squint glimpse of person crossing road which is hard to take eyes off as you wonder is he going to get knocked over but nope he isn't and that's the fascination of this image. The buildings has got good colouring created from window collecting a range of reflections form other windows making building a block of different lightness and details of patterns. 

Garry Winogrand's produces work that documents and photojournalist traditions. His work is influenced by Robert Frank's The Americans and bought a wide angle lens on a handheld camera to shoot close distance. This helped him to join more of his subjects and gave his images an unfamiliar, composition involvedness.   He enjoys taking shots due to seeing how things would look as photographs. He believes that the camera can be described as the illusion of a literal description of how a camera can snap a piece of time and space. The different classes, beliefs and races shoving on the street. He snaps these moments by having tilted viewpoints, their grainy closeness, frantic crowds and their temporally isolated strangers that matches the Vietnam years that provides a defining portrait of a society caught unaware.   

"For months I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following them, not because they particularly interested me. I photographed them with their knowledge, took note of their movements, then finally lost sight of them and forgot them" Sophie Calle