Bystander: A History of Street Photography

Boston: Thames & Hudsion, 1994. Hardcover. VG/VG (light bumping, creasing to corners. shelf-wear & edge-wear to boards. dustjacket plastic cover highly scuffed.). Moss green cloth boards w/ silver spine printing. 430 pgs w/ primarily bw illustrations. purple illustrated dustjacket w/ violent printing; plastic cover. Tracing the history of street photography, this book looks at the common ground of its practitioners - such as Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Kertesz, Lartigue, Walker Evans, Stieglitz, Model, Frank and others - since 1839, and in the process reveals much about the development of the photographic craft and its creative outlook. The first history of this tradition to be published, the book is illustrated with examples from the work of more than 80 photographers, drawn from public and private collections around the world.--WorldCat.