Meir wigoder biography sample

History of Photography, 2001

Abstract So much has already been written about street photography that one tends to forget that ...

more Abstract So much has already been written about street photography that one tends to forget that there is no definite and absolute definition of the topic. Rather, it has become a generalized term to define both the subject (the street, the people in the street, the shops, the neighbourhood and urban photography in general) and the activity of the photographer, acting either as a social documentarist or a free-roaming spirit projecting his/her own artistic inclinations on any movement in the street that stimulates his/her associative mind.

In an earlier period the street provided a gallery of social types that were recorded and classified with large-format camera