street photography

A New Bill Cunningham Doc Delightfully Captures His Artistry

By Stephanie Zacharek

Remembering Arlene Gottfried: Legendary New York City Street Photographer

By Paul Moakley

How One War Veteran Uses Photography to Manage his PTSD

By Janna Dotschkal

Meet the Unsung Street Photographer of 1980s New York

By Alexandra Genova
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Meet the Genius Street Photographer You've Never Heard Of

Charalampos Kydonakis' pictures flirt with the ironic and border on the insane

By Gus Powell

See How Gus Powell Mixed Words and Images for Wits

Inspired by surreal cartoons, Gus Powell creates a dialogue between text and images

By Aaron Schuman

9 Irish Photographers to Follow

The country is emerging as a photography powerhouse

By Richard Conway

Meet the Street Photographer Who Attached a Camera to His Face

Nicholas Williams constructed a jaw-operated camera that takes an image when he opens his mouth

By Adam Glanzman

Meet the Amateur Street Photographer Taking China by Storm

Three months ago, Tao Liu was just a water-meter reader in the Chinese city of Hefei

By Ye Ming

Meet Harlem’s ‘Official’ Street Photographer

Khalik Allah, a 29-year-old filmmaker and photographer who documents the streets of Harlem at night, has been photographing the corner of 125th and Lexington since 2012; armed with little more than a manual camera and...

By Adam Glanzman

A Photographer Captures World Trade Center Tourists

"What I wanted to do was capture peoples emotions of grief, despair, happiness, awe, longing, hoping — as many diverse emotions as there are people"

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#LightBoxFF: Street Scenes and 'Citilegs' with Stacey Baker

Stacey Baker, an Associate Editor at the New York Times Magazine, has an Instagram feed full of ladies legs, which she photographs on the streets of New York City in what she calls an "impromptu creative exchange"

By Josh Raab

Defying Expectations: An Alternative (and Peaceful) Look at 1968 Detroit

Today, Detroit is an exotic and extreme place whose grassy fields and acres upon acres of concrete ruins evoke horror and shame even from those who live there, writes Laura Berman of the Detroit News. But what Enrico Natali's photographs from the late 60s capture is normality: a Detroit that’s neither urban outlier nor crucible of failure.

By Laura Berman

Theater of the Streets, Shot On Google Glass

LightBox presents an interview with Richard Koci Hernandez, one of the first professional photographers to embark on an extended exploration of the streets with Google Glass, about his noir-styled pictures and the future of the form.

By Eugene Reznik

New Eyes on Familiar Streets: Todd Gross in New York City

Never having worked before as a professional photographer, the Queens-native wanders the streets of New York City capturing the humor and darkness that coexists on every block.

By Tanner Curtis

An American Epic: The Work of Garry Winogrand

A new exhibition at SFMOMA presents a retrospective look at Garry Winogrand's most iconic and rare photographs.

By Richard Conway

Taking His Time: A Look Back at 50 Years of Joel Meyerowitz's Photographs

In honor of the 50th anniversary of when he first took up a camera, photographer Joel Meyerowitz has compiled hundreds of his favorite images for a new two-volume collection.

By Nate Rawlings

Harlem Revisited: A New Look at Dawoud Bey's New York Portraits

Present-day Chicago is not Harlem in 1979. Present-day Harlem isn’t even Harlem in 1979. But at the Art Institute of Chicago’s new exhibition Dawoud Bey: Harlem USA, some things have stayed the same.

By Lily Rothman

California Dreaming In 1964: Arthur Tress' San Francisco

Arthur Tress' witty and absurdist street photography captures 1960s-era San Francisco as a place caught between Left and Right, old and new, real and surreal. The work is on view at the Fisher Family Gallery of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from March 3 to June 3.

By Nate Rawlings

Richard Sandler's 80s: When Greed was Good

New York City street photographer Richard Sandler was handed a Leica in 1977—it all changed from there. His photographs of New York City tapped directly into the pulse of the 80s.

By Caroline Smith
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