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Bystander: A History of Street Photography
 
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Bystander: A History of Street Photography (Hardcover)

by Colin Westerbeck (Author), Joel Meyerowitz (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Little Brown and Company (Nov 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0821217550
  • ISBN-13: 978-0821217559
  • Product Dimensions: 28.6 x 23.5 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,095,709 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This exemplary book offers a history at once scholarly and highly readable...a hugely satisfying book." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"BYSTANDER tracks photography's most significant and inchoate genre through a slew of anecdotes, ideas and prints." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars It's the photos...., 22 May 2002
By Rebecca Brown "rebeccasreads" (Clallam Bay, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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BYSTANDER embraces the social & cultural history of street photography. It touches upon the works of master photographers, yet leaves out so much about the actual photographs.

Trying to follow Meyerowitz's & Westerbeck's conversation, both obviously deeply emotional about the subject of street photography, simply went over my head in a rush of technical details & passionate positing as to why which photographer did what.

It is, however, the photographs in BYSTANDER that draw you back, again & again. The earliest ones that beg to have been enlarged, so rich in texture & composition; the later ones with their implicit social commentaries.

When we say that a picture is worth a thousand words, we're not kidding! Each & every photograph, even those that I couldn't make head nor tail, tell stories of our predecessors' lives & times, letting social history unravel before our eyes.

BYSTANDER is for everyone who loves to look at the past - the everyday, angular, shadow & light city past, through the window of a camera.

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5.0 out of 5 stars History Of Street Photography, 26 Jul 2003
By Gary Ferguson (Woking, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Scholarly, passionate, informed and entertaining. This book offers the definitive overview of street photography from the earliest Victorian experiments to the digital world of tomorrow. It's a fantastic book that will have you hurrying off to your local Leica dealer!
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