5 FAV Street Photography (with a moderated group pool)

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Street Photography with at least 5 favorites. The links in the groups list below lead to my other groups.

Wikipedia has an article about street photography the start of which is shown below:

Street photography generally refers to photographs made in public places — not only streets, but parks, beaches, malls, political conventions and myriad other settings — often but not always featuring people, usually in unposed or candid situations, going about their everyday lives. In one sense it can be thought of as a branch of documentary photography, but unlike traditional documentary its chief aim — or at least its chief effect — is seldom to document a particular subject, but rather to create photographs which strongly demonstrate the photographer's vision of the world. Good street photography often ends up being good documentary photography without really trying, especially after the passage of a few years, but unlike documentary it seldom has an explicit social agenda or rhetorical intent. It tends to be more ironic and distanced from its subject matter.


Overview

Street photography is also known as "Straight Photography," implying it is the pure vision of something that was, like holding up a mirror to society. It is a genre that was exceptionally present in the modern era and almost exclusively done in black and white photography. Street photography often concentrates on a single human moment, caught at a "decisive moment" or poignant moment. A stolen kiss on a street corner; a man jumping a puddle; a woman lost in her thoughts in a diner; a shopping trolley glowing in the last rays of sun: these are the bread and butter subjects of street photography.

Street photography is often thought of as having reached a zenith between roughly 1890 and 1975, when many of the seminal works were created, coinciding (although it was hardly a coincidence) with the introduction of the lightweight, high-quality, miniature 35mm rangefinder camera, and exemplified in particular by the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Alfred Eisenstaedt, W. Eugene Smith, William Eggleston, and Garry Winogrand.

In the 20th century, street photographers have provided an exemplary and detailed record of children's street culture in Europe and North America.


The list of my groups
Normal: cropped faces Coburg Current Framed Painting Palace Roof Samba Dancing St. Petersburg Slide Shows - Full Screen Flickr! The best only! - Good Photos of Sex
Stories and Exhibitions: ExtraWide Flickr Gallery Highres_Favorites Photo_Stories Stories
5 Favorites: animal wild animals in nature wild birds pets and zoo animals art museum buildings black&white churches and temples current paintings flowers landscapes nature night nudes objects people portrait sex sky street photography water


The group slide shows
Normal: cropped faces Coburg Current Framed Painting Palace Roof Samba Dancing St. Petersburg Slide Shows - Full Screen Flickr! The best only! - Good Photos of Sex
Stories and Exhibitions: ExtraWide Flickr Gallery Highres_Favorites Photo_Stories Stories
5 Favorites: animal wild animals in nature wild birds pets and zoo animals art museum buildings black&white churches and temples current paintings flowers landscapes nature night nudes objects people portrait sex sky street photography water


Slide Shows and other similar groups:

5 FAV Night Slide Show: straight and in random order
5 FAV Portrait Slide Show: straight and in random order
Outstanding Travel Slide Show: straight and in random order
XploreMyPix! Slide Show: straight and in random order


More about those slide shows in my Slide Shows - Full Screen Flickr!!! group.




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And here all of the 5 FAV goups: