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Was Cartier-Bresson Really That Great of a Street Photographer? By Michael Ernest Sweet Once again, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Decisive Moment is set to re-release in a new version this September from Thames & Hudson. The new edition is smaller, more affordable, and has some new features including detailed descriptions of the original books making, as well as an essay about its now-famous title. This isn’t the first time this photography “bible” has been re-released. Steidl published a meticulous facsimile of the original in 2015. So, with the book’s enduring fame, constant sales, and now rou ..read more

Famous Classic Cameras and the Street Photographers Who Used Them By Michael Ernest Sweet A camera is a tool – a means to an end; the photograph. That said, it is still a tool that is intimately connected to the photographer – it is their “main” tool. As photographers, we form a special bond with our cameras. For many photographers, it is hard to change cameras. The camera, with its specific lens, feel, and “way of operating”, all feed into our visual signature. For example, for many years now I have exclusively used the Ricoh GRD IV. My best-known body of street photography, The Human Fragmen ..read more

Fotografiska New York mounts exhibit surveying three decades of Bruce Gilden’s work Today, Fotografiska New York invites the public to WHY THESE? an exhibition of Bruce Gilden’s favorite work from 1979. The show will run until September 2024, after which it will head to Fotografiska locations in Tallinn, Estonia and Stockholm, Sweden for the rest of the year and early 2025. Envisioned as a tour of the American street photographer’s fruitful career, the exhibit showcases 45 photos handpicked by Gilden himself. Among these are 20 iconic snaps from his major projects in New York, Coney Island, Ha ..read more

Hints On Survival In Street Photography I’ve called this “Hints On Survival In Street Photography” to pay homage to the essay “Hints on Art”, which I will quote throughout this piece. “Hints on Art” was originally published in 1889. You may think that is a long time ago to still be relevant to photography today. You may be right. You may also be surprised. I will admit, some of the quotes I am taking from the piece are almost certainly bent out of context. Yet, they remain useful to push us forward in our discussion. Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) was a huge proponent of “the photographer [ch ..read more

Will there be another Garry Winogrand? The answer, no. No matter how hard some eager, young, naive, film-shooting, Chinon-wielding street photographer tries, they will not become the next Garry Winogrand. This is not to say that someone can’t achieve success or fame, whatever that looks like in the no-money-world of street photography, but there will almost certainly not be another Winogrand-like rock star street photographer. Ever. There are several reasons for this opinion. Chiefly, and perhaps most philosophically, there will not be another Winogrand, as he was a product of a specific time ..read more