kbg32
neo-romanticist
I have been involved with photography since the mid-1970s. All this talk and apparent research into when the phrase "street photography" came into use got me thinking, a lot, and doing a bit of research on my own.
I'm sure one can find the phrase "street photography" used intermittently before 1980. As far as I can tell, on my limited research, unless someone, somewhere can provide concrete evidence, it is a new term that has became fashionable to describe a genre.
Prior to 1980, I am only using that date as a guide as it could be later, the term that was in fashion, and one that ICP was founded on, was "concerned photography" or "humanistic".
ICP was founded as an institution to keep the legacy of "Concerned Photography" alive. After the untimely deaths of his brother Robert Capa and his colleagues Werner Bischof, Chim (David Seymour), and Dan Weiner in the 1950s, Capa saw the need to keep their humanitarian documentary work in the public eye. In 1966 he founded the International Fund for Concerned Photography. By 1974 the Fund needed a home, and the International Center of Photography was created.
"Humanist photography is the celebration of life and its inexhaustible diversity as seen through the lens of a photographer. Often called poetic realism, this genre celebrates the ordinary, the small pleasures of life, and the daily pitfalls of our existence."
"Humanist photography is an international photographic movement made of photographers whose common interest and focus is the human being in his everyday life. It was very prominent between the 30s and 60s, with names like Willy Ronis, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Edouard Boubat and Brassai, to name but a few. French photographers played a central and pivotal role in its development, focusing on the subject's environment as much as on the subject itself. The streets of Paris, factories and workshops, bars are favorite decors for intimate yet realistic portraits illustrating simple people's way of life. The underlying guiding principle for this series is the central place of the human being, under his/her most beautiful and ugliest traits."
I'm sure one can find the phrase "street photography" used intermittently before 1980. As far as I can tell, on my limited research, unless someone, somewhere can provide concrete evidence, it is a new term that has became fashionable to describe a genre.
Prior to 1980, I am only using that date as a guide as it could be later, the term that was in fashion, and one that ICP was founded on, was "concerned photography" or "humanistic".
ICP was founded as an institution to keep the legacy of "Concerned Photography" alive. After the untimely deaths of his brother Robert Capa and his colleagues Werner Bischof, Chim (David Seymour), and Dan Weiner in the 1950s, Capa saw the need to keep their humanitarian documentary work in the public eye. In 1966 he founded the International Fund for Concerned Photography. By 1974 the Fund needed a home, and the International Center of Photography was created.
"Humanist photography is the celebration of life and its inexhaustible diversity as seen through the lens of a photographer. Often called poetic realism, this genre celebrates the ordinary, the small pleasures of life, and the daily pitfalls of our existence."
"Humanist photography is an international photographic movement made of photographers whose common interest and focus is the human being in his everyday life. It was very prominent between the 30s and 60s, with names like Willy Ronis, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Edouard Boubat and Brassai, to name but a few. French photographers played a central and pivotal role in its development, focusing on the subject's environment as much as on the subject itself. The streets of Paris, factories and workshops, bars are favorite decors for intimate yet realistic portraits illustrating simple people's way of life. The underlying guiding principle for this series is the central place of the human being, under his/her most beautiful and ugliest traits."
