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This is a list of notable street photographers. Street photography is photography conducted for art or enquiry that presents unmediated chance encounters and random incidents [1] within public places. Street photography does not need the backdrop of a street or even an urban environment.
A review of his work in Black+White magazine stated, "Stark's idiomatic and wryly observed urban photographs of Sydney, Australia, represent a vital continuation of documentary street photography, reflecting similar social concerns and the same aesthetic irony as Robert Frank, William Klein and Garry Winogrand." [9]
Street photography is photography conducted for art or inquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents [1] within public places. It usually has the aim of capturing images at a decisive or poignant moment by careful framing and timing.
Urban art combines street art, guerrilla art, and graffiti and is often used to summarize all visual art forms arising in urban areas, being inspired by urban architecture or present urban lifestyle. Because the urban arts are characterized by existing in the public space, they are often viewed as vandalism and destruction of private property.
JR was born in Paris in 1983. His mother was originally from Tunisia. [12]A mural from JR's "Unframed" installation at Ellis Island Hospital. JR began his career as a teenage graffiti artist who was by his own admission not interested in changing the world, but in making his mark on public space and society.
DOME (real name: Christian Krämer) – street art, murals, urban art El Bocho (Berlin) – street art Boris Hoppek (born 1970, in Kreuztal; also known as "Forty") – contemporary artist based in Barcelona ; artistic roots lie in graffiti, but today his work spans painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation art
Martha Cooper (born 1943) is an American photojournalist.She worked as a staff photographer for the New York Post during the 1970s. [2] She is best known for documenting the New York City graffiti scene of the 1970s and 1980s.
Roberto Dutesco (Romanian: Robert Duțescu; born June 6, 1961) is a Romanian-born Canadian artist, photographer and filmmaker. He travels and works worldwide and resides in his three homes, in Montreal, New York City and São Paulo, Brazil. Dutesco began his career as a fashion photographer in Montreal, Canada.