Street Photography Now

Collecting photography books is a great hobby, they are interesting to look through and inspirational. The book that I look through the most is Street Photography Now, The book consists of 240 pages with photos taken from 46 contemporary image makers. The photographers have taken images all around the world allowing a board and diverse set of photos and styles coming through. The photos from Paul Russel have a large amount of humour behind them, but the images from Richard Wentworth are a documentation of random objects on the street left behind by people. The diverse way of shooting allows the photographers to each have individuality within the book, none of the photographers work clash on a visual level or on a meaning/representation level. Overall this is a highly recommend piece of work for anyone who is slightly interested in street photography or documentary photography, the book is most defiantly "Everyday life at 1/125 of a second" - quote from http://www.thamesandhudson.com/streetphotography.html

Paul Russell's photos here as a taster of what is inside of the book....

For more imformation on street photography click this link - http://www.lfph.org/what-is-street-photography

Original image taken from - http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/06/spend-some-time-with-paul-russell/