Apaflo wrote:
The dictionary definitions are just fine!
Ah ha!
you can't or won't state a specific choice?
Just give us a hint...do you like Mirriam-Webster's First, Second, or Third, or The Oxford unabridged? I really like dictionaries and always like to establish the basis of conversation. Just seems eminently rational!
And while you are deciding, why not recommend that our readers simply use Google to peruse the collected images of:
Atget,
Louis Hein,
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Brassai
Lee Friedlander
Dorothea Lange,
Walker Evans,
Garry Winogrand,
William Klien,
Helen Levitt, and
Robert Frank
They will find, among the collected images of these recognized eminences of "Street" none...that's zero, zilch...among them producing images similar in any way to those of people quietly enjoying pastoral, bucolic, woodland, seashore, or riparine scenes such as those you, for some unknown reason, like to include under the otherwise well-characterized examples of "Street" photography.
Even the images of Dorothea Lange, recently included in a show at MoMA on great women photographers of the 20th Century, although focused on the plight of the poor, migrant rural populations during the Depression's Dust Bowl years, pictured them not in pleasant rural environs, but always against the backdrop of habitations and working conditions of privation, identical, essentially, to the sense of the other street photographers who pictured identical scenes within the milieu of the urban poor.
Any attempt to interpret Bystander's book and attitudes as the arbiter of what is and isn't "Street" in a way that would, for example, include the "Witness" and "No Tarmac no cars but still street" images posted in this Section as reasonable examples of street photography flies in the face of the images of the acknowledged greats of the genre!
it is unarguable that the works of the greats listed above define "Street" far more accurately and explicitly than any poor effort on the part of anyone hoping to re-define the genre for personal purposes could ever do.
Dave