Street Gallery

WATANABE KATSUMI: “GANGS OF KABUKICHO”

The subjects in Watanabe’s photographs are the prostitutes, street people, Drag Queens, entertainers and gangsters (Yakuza) that populated Kabukicho at night.

Jerry Brendt: Scene from 1960’s Boston – ‘The Combat Zone’

‘The Combat Zone’ was the name given to the roughest area in Boston at the end of the 1960s, full of violence, sexual exploitation and racial war. In 1967, Harvard University commissioned Jerry Berndt to explore this Boston of shadows and vice. Like a war reporter, the […]

Robert Frank’s “From the Bus” (1958)

In the summer of 1958, several months before The Americans made its debut in France, Frank began experimenting with moving pictures.

WILLIAM GEDNEY: “BROOKLYN” (1967)

William Gedney, largely unknown in art world, outside of a few colleagues and curators, including John Szarkowski, Lee Friedlander, and Diane Arbus.

NACIO JAN BROWN: “RAG THEATER” (1969-1973)

“There is a sense in which this kind of photography involves taking something from people without giving them something in return.”

Mark Cohen’s ‘Grim Street’ – the Bang of the Flash and the Crop of the Head

“I come in a bit closer. So it’s not a play; it’s a macro-play that I’m dealing with. It’s a macro-play that I create with my own intrusion into the scene…” “Grim Street” is a selection and book of photographs by street photographer Mark […]

Leon Levinstein – Street Photography

Bold and bluntly framed, the images are enthused with a voyeuristic atmosphere and an emphasis on body shapes that at times seem to hint at the grotesque.

GARRY WINOGRAND: “WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL”

Keizo Kitajima’s Street Portraits of 1980’s NYC

Robert Frank’s “From the Bus” (1958)

In the summer of 1958, several months before The Americans made its debut in France, Frank began experimenting with moving pictures. But before turning wholeheartedly to filmmaking, he made another series of still photographs, From the Bus. After the unparalleled freedom of the Americans project, Frank vastly restricted his point of view by shooting these […]

FRED HERZOG: “COLOR”

Vivan Maier: Chicago’s Street Photographer

Vivian Dorothea Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was a street photographer.