The world atlas of street photography / Jackie Higgins ; foreword by Max Kozloff.

By:

Higgins, Jackie [author.]

Contributor(s):

Kozloff, Max [writer of foreword.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2014.Description: 399 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 25 cmISBN:

9780500544365
0500544360

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

770.927 HIG

Summary: This book focuses on the abundance of photography that has been created on street corners around the globe; it includes classic documentary street photography, as well as images of urban landscapes, staged performances, and sculptures. In so doing, this compelling reference book locates the meeting point between street photography and atlas, between artists and their personal understanding of our environment, not via a cartographic birds-eye view but through a more intimate, human-centred perspective. From New York to New Delhi, Beijing to Brighton, Havana to Hamburg, and Sydney to Seoul, this magnificently illustrated book presents an international cast of more than one hundred established and emerging contemporary photographers.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	770.927 HIG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100575084

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

More people than ever before live in the city, which critic Susan Sontag once described as 'a landscape of voluptuous extremes'. The energetic, ever-changing pace of the metropolis has long lured photographers to capture, often candidly, the chaos, character and incident of modern urban life. Its theatre of the everyday and the ordinary continues to inspire extraordinary art and holds up a mirror to our public world.

Including classic documentary street photography as well as images of urban landscapes, portraits and staged performances, The World Atlas of Street Photography focuses on an abundance of photography that has been created on street corners around the globe.

Follow Daido Moriyama as he roams the cramped, winding back alleys of Tokyo. Witness Joel Meyerowitz's extraordinary archive of New York's Ground Zero in the days after the 9/11 attacks. Watch Alexey Titarenko as he uses long exposures to recast his home town of St Petersburg as a haunting city of shadows. Gaze at the remarkable beach scenes of Rio de Janeiro with Julio Bittencourt. Observe Katy Grannan's portraits of the hustlers and strutters on Hollywood Boulevard, and infiltrate New York's hip-hop culture seen by Nikki S. Lee, artfully disguised to expose preconceptions on race and identity.

The World Atlas of Street Photography will take you on a kaleidoscopic adventure across the world's continents, city by city, in search of the best urban photographic art.

Includes index.

This book focuses on the abundance of photography that has been created on street corners around the globe; it includes classic documentary street photography, as well as images of urban landscapes, staged performances, and sculptures. In so doing, this compelling reference book locates the meeting point between street photography and atlas, between artists and their personal understanding of our environment, not via a cartographic birds-eye view but through a more intimate, human-centred perspective. From New York to New Delhi, Beijing to Brighton, Havana to Hamburg, and Sydney to Seoul, this magnificently illustrated book presents an international cast of more than one hundred established and emerging contemporary photographers.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jackie Higgins is a writer, journalist and filmmaker whose work embraces a range of subjects. She was a contributing writer to Photography: The Whole Story , also published by Thames & Hudson.