Stories of the street
Aug 27, 2019
4 minutes
Only a few decades ago, the term ‘street photography’ didn’t really exist, even though what is claimed to be the world’s first photograph, taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826, shows an urban scene. While more formally posed portraits and urban or rural landscapes were fashionable in the 19th century, a lot of early travel and documentary photographers were, of course, taking photographs of street scenes. By 1897, French photographer Eugène Atget was consciously taking images of a Paris which he saw expanding and developing very quickly, as more and more people flocked to the capital. As well as capturing old buildings, he was keen
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