Street Photography

  • Xu Yong: Hutong 101 Photos

    Xu Yong: Hutong 101 Photos

    Xu Yong was one of the first photographers to focus on everyday life in modern China. He traces the history of the traditional residential district of Beijing, with its centuries-old buildings complete with rear courtyards and myriad narrow alleyways, the “Hutongs.”

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  • Andreas Herzau: New York

    Andreas Herzau: New York

    Andreas Herzau became known for his worldwide reportage work for German magazines and newspapers. His numerous projects also included pictures of New York before and after the September 11 attacks.

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  • David Hurn: On Reading

    David Hurn: On Reading

    Since the late 1950s, photographer David Hurn has taken photographs of people engaged in the act of reading. He had captured moments of repose and absorption in cafes and bars, at dog shows and railway stations, strip clubs, museums, the seaside, film sets, parks and streets. His forthcoming book brings together these images for the…

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  • Evelyn Hofer: New York

    Evelyn Hofer: New York

    In Hofer’s photos of the street and (semi-)public spaces, people and architecture become symbols of a particular time and place. She immersed herself in New York society and captured these aspects of the everyday in images that invariably reflect the zeitgeist.

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  • Sibylle Bergemann – Stadt Land Hund. Photographs 1966–2010

    Sibylle Bergemann – Stadt Land Hund. Photographs 1966–2010

    In a career spanning more than four decades, Berlin-born Sibylle Bergemann created an extraordinary oeuvre ranging from fashion and portrait photographs to literary reportages and atmospheric series.

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  • Harri Pälviranta: Battered

    Harri Pälviranta: Battered

    Harri Pälviranta is a Finnish photographic artist and researcher. At the core of his artistic curiosity are issues relating to violence and masculinity.

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  • Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Huts, Temples, Castles

    Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Huts, Temples, Castles

    Unpublished images by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg capturing the improvised structures of a radical playground built by children in 1960s Amsterdam.

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  • Wolfgang Bellwinkel: Vast Land

    Wolfgang Bellwinkel: Vast Land

    Between the year 849 and the present, Myanmar has had an astounding 22 capitals, while the seat of government has changed 39 times. Vast Land by Wolfgang Bellwinkel is a photographic study of the country‘s last three capitals: Mandalay (1857–1885), Yangon (1885–2005) and Naypyitaw (since 2005).

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  • Margit Erb; Michael Parillo (Eds.): Unseen Saul Leiter

    Margit Erb; Michael Parillo (Eds.): Unseen Saul Leiter

    The first sightings of newly discovered work from Saul Leiter’s abundant archive of colour slides.

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  • Oluremi C. Onabanjo: Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos

    Oluremi C. Onabanjo: Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos

    Last Day in Lagos is a focused study on a singular African American photographer, through an archival encounter with her documentation of the landmark FESTAC’77 festival.

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  • Michael Lesy: Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories

    Michael Lesy: Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories

    In this unconventional, lyrical biography, Lesy traces Evans’s intimate, idiosyncratic relationships with men and women—the circle of friends who made Walker Evans who he was.

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  • Olaf Unverzart: Walking Distance

    Olaf Unverzart: Walking Distance

    Five continents, three decades: with Walking Distance, Olaf Unverzart presents his interpretation of a travel diary.

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