Street Photography: The Art of Capturing the Candid Moment By Gordon Lewis

I would tend to second Conrad Obregon's review. It is very difficult to write a really good book about street photography. The basics can be covered in a magazine article. That much will tell all that is needed to get started. What we are all looking for is a book that will help us to make *good* (or at least better) street photography. That is a very different matter. This book is a gallant try. However, as one who has dabbled in street photography quite often, but with rather little to show for it all, I don't think I gained much by reading this book. There are many photos in the book, most are quite good but few are memorable. The fact is, I think, that good street photography demands a rather special talent, besides a great deal of practice. Street Photography: The Art of Capturing the Candid Moment

Gordon Lewis' Street Photography is both a creative inspiration and also a pleasure to read. If I had to summarize it in one word, it would be witty. By that I mean that Lewis is elegant, illuminating, and often funny, both in his writing and in his photography. Being able to hear his voice come through in his writing and in his photography (and the photography of others that he includes) really helps the reader understand Lewis's creative point of view. He shows us instead of telling us, and it is contagious.This is a book for someone who already knows how to use their camera technically, and who wants to improve their aesthetic/artistic ability in the domain of street photography. Obviously, the ability to read street photography competently helps one's creative ability to produce quality street photography. Because Lewis's voice comes through in both prose and images, one learns how to see the world as Lewis does.Let me give a simple example. Early in the book, he shows a photo of rich reds, complex architectural structures, and warm sideways light streaming in to bring it all alive. Only after admiring the photo did I read the caption, where I discovered, to my shock, that the photo was taken in the entryway of a Target department store (!!). When I looked back again at the photo, I realized that it could well have been my own local Target, and I wondered: how many times have I blithely walked past this incredible play of light, color, and structure, not bothering to look, because it was a Target? Throughout, Lewis shows how apparently boring everyday scenes can be turned into very interesting photos if you just know how to look.I have many photography and art books with titles that have variants on how to see, how to read, seeing like a photographer and so on. Rarely do I come away from them whatever else their merits are feeling like I am capable of seeing like a photographer or of reading photography; like anything else, such knowledge is slowly and painstakingly acquired. Yet this beautiful little book Street Photography delivers as much of that as one could reasonably hope in a surprisingly compact space.Again, I think what made the book work so well is the unusual connection between words and images. Commonly in photography books, the images are stunning and the words are either so few that they don't do much, or so turgid that you know why the author became a photographer and not a writer! This connection between words and images immerses the reader in Lewis' creative point of view. I'm glad for the few hours I spent in it, and I look forward to revisiting this book next time my creativity seems dried up, to remind myself that I have merely forgotten how to see. Street Photography: The Art of Capturing the Candid Moment I've the chance to read the digital version first of that particulier book, and I was very please to get good advice that apply in my opinion to the beginner. It is for the amateur, the virgin street photographer. It succeeds as a primer for the uninitiated, for those who are curious about street but haven’t taken the big plunge into it. It’s light on total content, but the content touches on the essentials of street. Lewis writes about them with skill and bits of wit. Not once is the reader bogged down. Street Photography: The Art of Capturing the Candid Moment Another of the best Street Photography books with quotes & suggestions to make you think about your Street Photography. Street Photography: The Art of Capturing the Candid Moment The quality/layout was so unappealing that I really couldn't tell you much about the content. Which obviously is not good for a book that's meant to be instructing me to take better pictures. Sorry. Street Photography: The Art of Capturing the Candid Moment Un libro mediocre. Seguí durante un tiempo el antiguo blog de Gordon Lewis (shutterfinger) y esperaba sinceramente que el libro tuviera algo más de profundidad Street Photography: The Art of Capturing the Candid Moment

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