- Eugene Atget: In the early years of photography street photography proved immensely difficult. The fast pace of modern life was hard to capture with the lack of fast shutter speeds. Instead of capturing the bustling streets of city life, we see ghost towns of buildings and empty streets e.g. the image below taken by Eugene Atget in the 1890s:
The lack of people make the locations seem almost set like. Even his shots including people are artfully staged:
- Andre Kertesz: Below, we start to see what we know now to be a street photography style - the moving train in the distance, the people on the streets. The photograph is candid and intriguing. Kertesz, a Hungarian born photographer, made some groundbreaking contributions to the form, style, tone and composition of street photography during the very early 20th Century.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: Known as the godfather of candid and street photography, Cartier-Bresson remains one of the most influential photographers of all time. In 1952, Cartier-Bresson published his book The Decisive Moment. 'You must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.'
- Below is a link to a useful website for any further reading about some the masters mentioned above! http://photography-now.net/listings/index.php?option=com_alphacontent§ion=29&cat=127&Itemid=293
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