Street photography is a field in photography which captures people in their true daily lives in public spaces. It isn’t staged, faked, or preplanned in any sort of way, but captures strangers in vivid ways and focuses on their interactions, both physical and emotional, with their surroundings. These deceptions of everyday life of society show atmosphere, setting, and capture a broader view of the way we are living. The publicness of the space allows street photographers to take images of strangers without their knowledge, making photographs diverse in emotions. These emotions that would have went unnoticed in life were captured to show the true mechanisms behind the human lifestyle and character.

Additionally, street photography doesn’t deliberately add meaning and a story to photographs, but leaves it open ended, allowing each viewer to form a story accordingly to their life experiences and past, making the same images meaningful to a larger variety of viewers and groups of people.

“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” — Robert Doisneau

 

 

Works Cited

Blog, Px. “A Simple Secret to Better Street Photography – 500px.” 500px, 30 Sept. 2015, iso.500px.com/a-simple-secret-to-better-street-photography.

Blumberg, and Naomi. “Street Photography | Definition, History, Types, and Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Aug. 2014, www.britannica.com/art/street-photography.

A Definition of Street Photography. www.dostreetphotography.com/blog/definition-street-photography.