WHERE STREET KNOWLEDGE MEETS PHOTOGRAPHY
The Street Is Watching
Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey, based in Chicago, was born in 1953 in Queens, New York. Celebrated for his rich, psychologically compelling portraits, Bey explores in his work a range of formal and material methodologies to create images and projects that connect deeply with the communities he photographs.
Zoltan Nagy
Zoltan Nagy was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1943. He left his country in 1966. From 1967 to 1972 he attended the Folkwangschule für Gestaltung in Essen, Germany, and specialized in photojournalism with Otto Steinert.
Gary Krueger
Gary Krueger's City of Angels, 1971-1980, a collection of sometimes frenetic and often bizarre photographs of Los Angeles, California. Krueger's curiosity and instincts helped to create a remarkable body of street photography that he describes as "split-second juxtapositions in life.
Romano Cagnoni
Romano Cagnoni is an international, award-winning photographer, known as one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. His photographs have been featured on the cover and front page of nearly every significant news magazine and paper in Europe and the United States.
Mark Seliger
Mark Seliger is an American photographer known for his portraits of celebrities and political figures. His sitters have included Kurt Cobain, Lenny Kravitz, Cindy Sherman, Drew Barrymore, and Barack Obama. “I started pretty young, shooting for magazines when I was 26.
Robert Yager
Robert Yager was born and grew up in London, England. Fluent in Spanish, he lived in Mexico City for a year and then at 21 years of age, he moved to Los Angeles to study photography.
Steve Shapiro
Steve Schapiro discovered photography at the age of nine at summer camp. Excited by the camera’s potential, Schapiro spent the next decades prowling the streets of his native New York City trying to emulate the work of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson
Eugene Richards
Eugene Richards, photographer, writer, and filmmaker, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1944. After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in English, he studied photography with Minor White.
Helen Levitt
Born 1913 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, American photographer Helen Levitt became intrigued with the transitory chalk drawings that were part of the New York children's street culture...
Wynn Miller
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Wynn Miller first visited the city’s Eastside in the 1970s, after an invitation from his brother-in-law to meet members of the Arizona Maravilla gang.
Arlene Harriet Gottfried
Arlene Harriet Gottfried (August 26, 1950 - August 8, 2017) was a New York City street photographer who recorded scenes of ordinary daily life in some of the city's less well-to-do neighborhoods.
Deanna Templeton
Deanna Templeton (born in 1969, Huntington Beach, California) is an American artist working primarily in photography. Templeton lives and works in Huntington Beach, California.
