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STREET PHOTOGRAPHY: AN UNUSUAL PERSPECTIVE FOR GROWTH

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY: AN UNUSUAL PERSPECTIVE FOR GROWTH

A journey through the great masters to truly understand street photography and elevate your photographic vision.
Created byAlessandro Mallamaci
Last updated 2/2026
English
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn the techniques used by great street photographers to create their works of art.
  • Improve your photographic practice.
  • Discover a different approach to street photography.
  • Discover street photography through the work of different authors who made its history.
  • Question the nature of this art and form your own idea about street photography.
  • Choose your own way to represent the world.

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 1h 27m total length

  • Introduction1:10

    Explore the work of street photography authors and reflect on this approach while questioning the nature of street photography, bringing out critical issues and a new perspective.

  • The origins, Eugène Atget and André Kertész5:30

    Explore the origins of street photography through Eugène Atget and André Kertész, highlighting blurred boundaries between street, landscape, and interior work, with emphasis on geometry, composition, and cropping.

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson, reportage and the decisive moment16:19

    Analyze how Cartier-Bresson uses street photography as reportage, pre-visualization, rhythm, triangles, and relationships to capture decisive moments that tell powerful stories.

  • Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Robert Frank13:29

    Explore how Elliott Erwitt uses irony and narrative in street photography, from dog portraits to imperfect family scenes, alongside Walker Evans’ objective american photographs and Robert Frank’s Americans.

  • Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and photographic language10:08

    Discover Lee Friedlander’s street photography language, using reflections and multi-part frames to reveal many realities, and learn to build a personal photo language across artists like Winogrand and Bresson.

  • Anders Petersen, William Klein, Joel Meyerowitz9:57

    Explore Anders Petersen's Café Lemitz and how Klein and Meyerowitz flatten reality into two dimensions, while color and evolution from street to landscape and still life enrich their work.

  • Ray K. Metzker, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb10:04

    Explore how Metzger uses exposure to turn light into silhouettes and drama, then learn Webb and Norris Webb's street photography approach—permission, patience, and embracing failure to shape chaotic scenes.

  • Martin Parr, Josef Koudelka4:49

    Explore the street photography of Martin Parr and Josef Koudelka, examining tourism's sociological themes, irony, and how deliberate frame elements, time, and composition convey meaning.

  • Michael Ackerman, Antoine D'Agata, Daido Moryama, Bruce Gilden10:45

    Explore intimate, journal intime photography from Michael Ackerman and Antoine d'Agata, then contrast Daido Moriyama and Bruce Gilden's gritty street work, highlighting obsession, self-portrait, night scenes, and improvised techniques.

  • Conclusions5:30

    Strike a minimalist approach to street photography by fixing exposure, keeping ISO constant, and choosing an aperture, then rely on presence and fixed focal length.

Requirements

  • No specific requirements are needed, only a passion for photography.

Description

Many people shoot street photography.

Few truly stop to understand what they are looking at.

If you think street photography is just about “capturing the moment,” this course may change the way you see.

This is not a technical course.

It is not a how-to manual.

It is a path toward photographic maturity.


Through the work of the great masters of street photography, we will analyze language, choices, intentions, and vision — questioning what is often taken for granted.

You will learn not only to look at images more carefully, but to understand what truly makes them powerful.

I will show you a different point of view from the one we are usually accustomed to, and together we will try to bring out some critical aspects, questions, and doubts… rather than simply repeating the usual narrative.


PROGRAM


  1. Introduction

  2. The origins, Eugène Atget and André Kertész

  3. Henri Cartier-Bresson, reportage and the decisive moment

  4. Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Robert Frank

  5. Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and photographic language

  6. Anders Petersen, William Klein, Joel Meyerowitz

  7. Ray K. Metzker, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb

  8. Martin Parr, Josef Koudelka

  9. Michael Ackerman, Antoine D’Agata, Daido Moriyama, Bruce Gilden

  10. Conclusions

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All works shown are used for purposes of critique or discussion and are therefore exclusively intended for teaching and educational use. All rights to the works shown in this course belong to their respective authors or rights holders. The works are displayed at the minimum quality necessary for a proper understanding of the topics discussed. Under no circumstances does this course constitute competition with the economic exploitation of the works; on the contrary, it aims to promote and disseminate them. Should any rights holder have inadvertently not been notified and disagree with the use of their work, the course author is available to remove it upon contact through this platform or via email (available on the author’s website).

Who this course is for:

  • You are an active amateur photographer who wants to grow
  • You want to understand what distinguishes a good image from a meaningful one
  • You love street photography but feel ready to go beyond the surface
  • You want to develop a more conscious and mature photographic vision
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  • Street photographers
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