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Street photography is the art of the "decisive moment," where the urban flâneur uses the camera to find chance beauty in everyday life. Luminous-Lint provides a comprehensive history of the candid image, from the early hand-camera work of the 1890s to the gritty realism of the late 20th century.

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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to street photography
2Adolphe Duperly: Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica (ca 1844)
3Early street photography
4Strolling the city streets
5Different perspectives on nineteenth century street photography
Changes in cameras
6Camera developments and street photography
7European Street photography of the 1920s and 1930s
Photographers
8Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor
9Silas A. Holmes (attributed): New York (ca. 1855)
10Charles Piazzi Smyth: Early street photography in Russia (1859)
11John Thomson: Physic Street, Canton, China
12John Thomson: China, a travelling chiropodist
13John Thomson: Street Life in London
14John Thomson: The Crawlers
15Eugène Atget: Street photography
16T.H. McAllister (American): Street life of New York (1898)
17Paul Martin: Street photography
18Victor Angerer: Instantaneous photography on the street (1888)
19J.J. Clarke: The streets of Dublin
20Edward Linley Sambourne: London streets (1900-1910)
21Dr. Emil Mayer: Street photography
22Roman Vishniac: Street photography
23Wolfgang Suschitzky: London: Charing Cross Road (ca 1936)
24Arnold Genthe: Chinatown
25Sam Cheney Partridge (photographer) & W. B. Tyler (printer): Chinatown, San Francisco
26Walker Evans: Street photography
27Walker Evans: The subway portraits
28Louis Faurer: Street photography
29Helen Levitt: Children of New York
30Roger Mayne: Southam Street
31Weegee: Street photography
32Vivian Maier: Street photography
33Saul Leiter: New York in colour
34Robert Frank: The Americans
35Robert Frank, 1958, "A Statement", U. S. Camera Annual, p. 115
36Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
37Garry Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful (1975)
38Joel Meyerowitz: Street photography
39Ed Van der Elsken: Sweet Life (1966)
40Frederick Wilfred: London (ca. 1960s)
41William Klein: Books
42Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer: The first exhibition "Bali-Kino" Berlin (October 1974)
43Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer: What's our Concern with Strangers?
44Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street hustlers
Voyeurism
45Voyeurism
Working on the street
46Walking portraits, or walkies, taken by opportunistic commercial street photographers
47Joseph Selle's Fox Movie Flash: Mid-Century Street Vendor Photography
48Backgrounds: Street photographers
49Afghan Box Camera Project
50Everybody Street (director: Cheryl Dunn, 2013)

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