Thoroughly updated and revised to feature new photographers and over sixty new images, this acclaimed celebration of street photography shows how women transform passing encounters into pictures charged with beauty, humor, mystery, and human connection.
This completely revised edition of the widely praised and bestselling global survey from 2021 brings together women working in the steadily evolving field of street photography. This book features many remarkable scenes—there is the anonymous New Yorker distinguished by her sculptural red hair; a woman’s face fractured by a restaurant partition in California; young men arranged around a poised central figure in Punjab; and a surreal confrontation on the beach at Coney Island. The new selection reflects the vast growth of the Women Street Photographers community, introducing emerging practitioners alongside recent work by returning contributors. The book traces the continuing development of their individual approaches. Samoilova curates a diversity of voices from different countries, generations, and styles in conversation, while personal statements reveal the patience, intuition, and circumstances behind each image. Fullpage and double-page reproductions give every composition room to command attention and reward close, unhurried looking. By turns intimate, surreal, humorous, and unsettling, these photographs expand the story of who documents the world’s streets and sharpen our ability to recognize a decisive instant before it disappears.
Biography
Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova
GULNARA LYABIB SAMOILOVA is an American photographer, author, curator, and founder of Women Street Photographers, a global community bringing together women and non-binary photographers through exhibitions, an annual festival, an artist residency, and online platforms. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of the City of New York, the New York Public Library, the New York Historical, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Melissa Breyer
Melissa Breyer is a photographer and writer specializing in street photography. Breyer’s photography has been exhibited across the globe and has featured in national and international publications, including National Geographic and The New York Times.
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