Street Photography in Illinois: Sources and Further Reading

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Sources

Brougher, Kerry, and Russell Ferguson. Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950. Oxford, England: Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 2001.

Debord, Guy. “Theory of the Dérive.” Translated by Ken Knabb. Les Lèvres nues #9 (November 1956).

Gibson, David. The Street Photographer’s Manual. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014.

Lewis, Gordon, Maggie Yates, Petra Strauch, and Helmut Kraus. Street Photography: The Art of Capturing the Candid Moment. Santa Barbara, California: Rocky Nook, 2015.

Sontag, Susan. On Photography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

Starrett, Susan. “Street Photography and the Flaneuse.” Visual Communication Quarterly 27, no. 3 (July-Sept 2020): 172-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2020.1798145.

Westerbeck, Colin, and Joel Meyerowitz. Bystander: A History of Street Photography [Revised edition]. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2017.

Wigoder, M. “Some Thoughts about Street Photography and the Everyday.” History of Photography 25, no. 4 (2001): 368–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2001.10443239.

 

Further Reading

Chicago Street Photography Collective website

E-book version of On city streets: Chicago, 1964-2004 by Gary Stochl (Santa Fe: Center for American Places in association with Columbia College Chicago 2005) via Internet Archive  

E-book version of On Photography by Susan Sontag (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977) via Internet Archive

Street Photography Magazine’s podcast

“The Life and Work of Street Photographer Vivian Maier” by Nora O’Donnell (December 14, 2010) via Chicago Magazine