1. Classic Street Photographers
Week 5
Classic Street Photographers

2. Andre Kertesz

3. Andre Kertesz 1920’s-1980’s Hungarian
Seminal figure of photojournalism
Prior to HCB
Photo-essay
Composition

4. Quotes “Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph”
“I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye”
“Mr. Kertesz was known for his drive and enthusiasm. At 90, he produced a portfolio of new pictures and showed it to the photographer Susan May Tell. When she asked him what it was that kept him working, he replied, "I am still hungry.”- written in his obiturary

11. Henri Cartier-Bresson

12. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Grandfather of street photography
Geometry
Lines
“The Decisive Moment”
Focal length: 50mm

13. Quotes
“The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”
“Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You musn’t go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.”
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”

14. What inspired HCB to start shooting
"Muncacci's picture made me suddenly realized that photography could reach eternity through the moment."

15. Martin Munkacsi: 'Black boys ashore Lake Tanganyika' (1931)

28. Robert Doisneau

29. Robert Doisneau 1930’s-1950’s Paris (with HCB) Influences: HCB
Andre Kertesz
Style:
Modest
Playful
Amusing juxtapositions
Flanuer
Shy

30. Quotes
"The marvels of daily life are so exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
“Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.”

39. Helen Levitt

40. Helen Levitt 1930’s-1960’s NYC Influences: Style: HCB Walker Evans
Children
Street culture
Chalk drawings

41. Quotes “Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images.”
“I looked at paintings for composition”
“I go where there’s a lot of activity”

52. Robert Frank

53. Robert Frank
Born in Switzerland, did his 1958 book titled “The Americans”
Skeptical outside view to American society
America by car

62. Vivian Maier

64. Vivian Maier 1950’s-1960’s Nanny Born in New York, grew up in France
Shot around 40 years in Chicago
Discovered by John Maloof

75. Alfred Eisenstaedt

76. Alfred Eisenstaedt 1930’s-1970’s German-American LIFE Photographer
Famous for “V-J Day” Kiss