Street Photography Books. Check out these newly released books on the most popular photography style practiced today. Learn from the masters of street photography and get inspired to launch next photography project!
“Photography was an integral part of my family life with my father teaching me darkroom techniques and the fundamentals. Sunday night was a family night for slide shows instead of watching “Lassie”.
In college I studied photojournalism. I received a B.A. from Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York, in Studio Art and Art History. I interned at the Cloisters, the Medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as a photo archivist. With that experience I landed a job at Perls Galleries on Madison Avenue where I worked for fifteen years as Associate Director. I handled Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, Leger and Matisse and prepared exhibitions and catalogues for Alexander Calder.
I was included in the “Big Picture” exhibition at P.S.1. My photographs were shown at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. I went back to school to study Graphic Design and computer based photography (early Photoshop) at the School of Visual Arts, New York where I studied with Milton Glaser and Paul Davis.
From 1996, in my series “After Neon” I photographed the vanishing world of neon lights in the streets of Manhattan and the boroughs. That series has earned me finalists spots at IPA, Photographers Forum and the The Gallery of Art & Design. I exhibited this work at Soho Photo in Tribeca, Capital One Corporate Gallery, Richmond VA, Artspace, Richmond VA and Kkien Atlier, Milan, Italy.
My next series is taken on the streets of New York and LA for “Not In Your Face”. These images were published on PDN Photo of the Day, Nerve.com and Aline Smithson’s Lenscratch. The book “Not In Your Face”, 64 images in full color will appear this year from the publisher Silas Finch, New York.
I maintain a working studio in Tribeca and live in Manhattan and sail in Hampton Bays.”
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Dating back to October 2002, the blog started up as an accompaniment to the long-established urban75 website, and ran on a basic Google Blogger account.
The early blogs – mainly posted from my old Palm Treo phone – are quite basic, image-free affairs (and rather dull, truth be told), but as you move through time, photos appear (huzzah!), and the pages get more graphic content in line with connection times getting faster.”
Strong colors, unique composition, and visually striking best describe the photography works of photographer William Darhy. His photoblog is relatively new, but his portfolio shows great range..macro photography, urban photography, landscapes and portraiture. Here is a brief excerpt from his bio…
“Amateur Photographer, I have started photography in 2007 after I bought my first DSLR. Since then, photography has been more than a single leisure.
I am looking to cature the moment, so my style could be qualified as street/candid, whereas I sometimes shoot macros and landscapes. I have to confess I am most of the time not patient enough to create heavy setups or to enter into deep post processing of the picture. I mostly use adobe lightroom for tone balances.”
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“My name is Eike Maschewski. On the internet, however, most people know me under my pseudonym Braesikalla.
I started taking pictures in 2001 when I bought my first camera ever – a Sony DSC-V1. I never had much interest in photography before. But a bug has bitten me since then and now most of my spare time is spent taking pictures and developing them with modern digital tools like Capture One, Photoshop and Photomatix – just to name a few.
I have a vast interest in urbanity and so you won’t be surprised that my main focus is upon dramatic cityscapes and portraits of bizarre and strange looking people. These are always captured candidly, I never ask for permission, and I rarely get noticed because a great deal of them are shot from the hip without using the viewfinder.
In my work I don’t strive to be “realistic” – so I don’t have a photojournalistic approach. Instead I rely heavily on postprocessing to alter a scene in a way that it is becoming visually more appealing. Most of the time this means restoring and revealing the dynamic range of a picture – or put in another way I’m a bit like an archaelogist who uncovers all the data about light that is captured in a raw file. Sometimes I use a program like Photomatix to do so, on another occasion I produce multiple exposures from a single raw file and blend them together with complex masks.”
