''Street Photography Now'' is a survey book of contemporary

street photography Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and ca ...

, edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren and published by

Thames & Hudson Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts. It also publishes books on archaeology, history, ...

in 2010. It includes work by 56 photographers. Blake Andrews described the book as "the first broad street photography book to be published since ''Bystander'' in 1994". Between 2010 and 2012, a series of exhibitions were held in Europe with work from the book.

Book content

''Street Photography Now'' includes portfolios of work and biographies of Christophe Agou, Gary Alexander, ,

Narelle Autio Narelle Autio (born 1969) is an Australian photographer. Autio is a member of the In-Public street photography collective and is a founding member of the Oculi photographic agency. She is married to the photographer Trent Parke, with whom she ...

, Bang Byoung-Sang, Polly Braden, Maciej Dakowicz, Carolyn Drake,

Melanie Einzig Melanie Einzig (born 1967) is an American photographer known for her street photography in and around New York City, where she has lived since 1990. Einzig was a member of the first incarnation of the In-Public street photography collective, from ...

, Peter Funch, , Andrew Glickman, George Georgiou, David Gibson,

Bruce Gilden Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is an American street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun. He has had various books of his work published, has received the Europ ...

, Siegfried Hansen, Cristóbal Hara, Markus Hartel, Nils Jorgensen,

Richard Kalvar Richard Kalvar (born 1944) is an American photographer who has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1975. Kalvar has had a solo exhibition at Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris. Life and work Kalvar was born in Brooklyn, New Yor ...

Osamu Kanemura is a Japanese photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types ...

Martin Kollar Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austra ...

, Jens Olof Lasthein, Frederic Lezmi, Stephen McLaren,

Jesse Marlow Jesse Marlow (1978) is an Australian street photographer, editorial and commercial photographer who lives and works in Melbourne. Marlow's personal work has been published in three books of his own, and in various books with others; it has been e ...

, Mirko Martin, Jeff Mermelstein,

Joel Meyerowitz Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the ide ...

, Mimi Mollica,

Trent Parke Trent Parke (born 1971) is an Australian photographer. He is the husband of Narelle Autio, with whom he often collaborates. He has created a number of photography books; won numerous national and international awards including four World Press P ...

Martin Parr Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in ...

, Gus Powell, Mark Alor Powell, Bruno Quinquet,

Raghu Rai Raghu Rai (born 1942), is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. He was a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who appointed Rai, then a young photojournalist, to Magnum Photos in 1977. Rai became a photographer in 1965, and a year later ...

, Paul Russell,

Boris Savelev Boris Savelev (russian: Савельев, Борис Александрович, born 1948) is a Ukrainian-born Russian photographer. Career His original career was as an aerospace engineer, however it is photography that made his name since 1976 ...

, Otto Snoek, Matt Stuart, Ying Tang,

Alexey Titarenko Alexey (Aleksey, Alexis, Alexei) Viktorovich Titarenko (born November 25, 1962; russian: link=no, Алексей Викторович Титаренко) is a Soviet Union-born American photographer and artist. He lives and works in New York City ...

Lars Tunbjörk Lars Tunbjörk (15 February 1956 – 8 April 2015) was a Swedish photographer known for his "deadpan portraits of office spaces and suburban lifestyles". Background Tunbjörk was born in the Swedish town of Borås, a place which was a big influe ...

, Nick Turpin,

Jeff Wall Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essa ...

Munem Wasif Munem Wasif ( bn, মুনেম ওয়াসিফ) (born 11 April 1983) is a photographer from Bangladesh. Biography Munem Wasif is a documentary photographer in Bangladesh. He has been represented by Agence Vu since 2008, and is now teac ...

, Alex Webb, Richard Wentworth, Amani Willett, Michael Wolf, Artem Zhitenev and . It also includes four essays and a transcript of a conversation between Lezmi, Marlow, Alor Powell, Gus Powell, Russell, Tang and Turpin. The selection of photographers seemed biased to Andrews:

. . . ''Street Photography Now'' seems intimately tied to the web. . . . The selection of photographers seems young, global, and web-savvy, with a substantial dose of HCSP,"Hardcore Street Photography", a
Flickr Flickr ( ; ) is an American image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was a popular way for amateur and professiona ...
group; it is described in Andrew Kochanowski,
Contemporary street photography: Where can I find the good stuff?
" The Online Photographer, 27 November 2012. Flickr, and In-Public members. / Meanwhile, some street stalwarts who aren't daily participants in the online world are left out, e.g., Charles Traub, Sylvia Plachy, Daido Moriyama, eeFriedlander, and Henry Wessel, not to mention the patron saint of candid street photography, Elliott Erwitt. Joel Meyerowitz is included even though he hasn't been an active street shooter for 40 years.

Andrews also noted "various citation snafus", pointing to two descriptions of this as

plagiarism Plagiarism is the fraudulent representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.From the 1995 '' Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary'': use or close imitation of the language and though ...

Project

The accompanying Street Photography Now Project was a year-long collaboration between McLaren, Howarth and

The Photographers' Gallery The Photographers' Gallery was founded in London by Sue Davies opening on 14 January 1971, as the first public gallery in the United Kingdom devoted solely to photography. It is also home to the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, established i ...

. The project was open to the public and participants were "invited to contribute a photograph each week following a weekly instruction" by a photographer.

Exhibitions

*''Street Photography Now,''

Third Floor Gallery Third Floor Gallery was an independent charitable photography gallery in Cardiff Bay, Wales. It opened in 2010 and predominantly featured documentary photography, often premiering new work with the direct involvement of the photographers. It clo ...

, Cardiff, October–November 2010, and toured to Contributed Studio for the Arts, Berlin, December 2010 – January 2011; and the Museum of Printing,

Historical Museum of Warsaw Museum of Warsaw ( pl, Muzeum Warszawy) (in 1948–2014 ''Historical Museum of Warsaw'', pl, Muzeum Historyczne m.st. Warszawy) is a museum in the Old Town Market Place in Warsaw, Poland. It was established in 1936. History of the museum The ...

, Warsaw, November 2011 – January 2012. *''Street Photography Now,'' shop windows throughout the

Canal Saint-Martin The Canal Saint-Martin is a 4.6 km (2.86 mi) long canal in Paris, connecting the Canal de l'Ourcq to the river Seine. Over nearly half its length (), between the Rue du Faubourg du Temple and the Place de la Bastille, it was covered, in t ...

area, part of Mois de la Photo-OFF, Paris, November 2010; Gallery Lichtblick, Cologne, 2010; and Uno Art Space, Stuttgart, April–June 2011.

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