Europe Street photography



window cleaner @ kottbusser tor, berlin, elsa thiemann c.1946


cartier-bresson associated post-war humanist school photographers found subjects on street or in bistro. worked in black‐and‐white in available light popular small cameras of day, discovering writer pierre mac orlan (1882-1970) called fantastique social de la rue (social fantastic of street) , style of image-making rendered romantic , poetic way of life of ordinary european people, particularly in paris. between 1946-1957 le groupe des xv annually exhibited work of kind. street photography formed major content of 2 exhibitions @ museum of modern art (moma) in new york curated edward steichen, 5 french photographers: brassai; cartier-bresson, doisneau, ronis, izis in 1951-1952, , post-war european photography in 1953. steichen drew on large numbers of european humanist , american humanistic photographs 1955 exhibition family of man, proclaimed compassionate portrayal of global family, toured world, inspiring photographers in depiction of everyday life.








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