street photography

[topaz]

The BBC's "Viewfinder" blog writes about the importance of street photography:

"For me, with my photographer's hat on, what keeps me doing this is a belief that one of photography's core purposes is to discover poetic moments in everyday life. From the invention of the medium, nosey parkers, journalists, voyeurs, and poets have used cameras to show us that this world is an intrinsically fascinating place to live in."

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[opadit.livejournal.com]

Oh, also local-to-me (and living) artist Zoe Strauss (not totally SFW or kids) (http://zoestrauss.blogspot.com/). Zoe's done jaw-droppingly amazing, deeply personal portraits that are basically just street snapshots of strangers that she's walked up to -- sample (http://zoestrauss.blogspot.com/2010/04/there-are-few-photos-from-this-year.html).