| Other author/creator | Bussard, Katherine A., editor. |
| Other author/creator | Avedon, Richard photographer. |
| Other author/creator | Rosler, Martha, photographer. |
| Other author/creator | DiCorcia, Philip-Lorca photographer. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Richard Avedon: better than real -- Charles Moore: to be involved -- Martha Rosler: a walk down the bowery -- Philip-Lorca DiCorcia: analogues of reality. |
| Abstract |
City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images. Revolutionizing the history of street photography, Unfamiliar Streets explores the work of Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Charles Moore (1931-2010), Martha Rosler (b. 1943), and Philip-Lorca DiCorcia (b. 1951), four American photographers whose careers in fashion, photojournalism, conceptual art, and contemporary art are not usually associated with the genre. Bussard's lively and engaging text, a timely response to a growing interest in urban photography, challenges the traditional understanding of street photography and makes original and important connections among urban culture, social history, and the visual arts, constructing a new historical model for understanding street photography. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, this book provides an interpretation of a compelling genre that is as fresh as its consideration of the city streets themselves, sites of commerce, dispossession, desire, demonstration, power, and spectacle.--Publisher description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-211) and index. |
| Language | Text in English. |
| LCCN | 2013023365 |
| ISBN | 9780300192261 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0300192266 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
