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Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt, one of the famous street photography icons (born in 1913), died at the age of 95 on the night from Saturday to Sunday in her apartment in New York, Greenwich Village. Helen Levitt on Lens Culture Interview (Audio) with Helen Levitt. ... read more
Feature: ALEX by Christian Reister
At Alexanderplatz bizarre humor, pure joy and deep sadness are often only a few concrete slabs apart. Between 2008 and 2009 Christian Reister photographed daily life at Berlin's biggest square, where some 120,000 people pass by daily.
The result is a ...
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What is Public Life
Public Life is a meeting point for international street photographers. Street photography is one of the most vivid, complex and expressive forms of photography. Capturing both people and context, situations as they happen, in one picture requires a good eye, the ability to see and compose a picture in a few seconds. Impartiality and some luck are needed as well. Street photography is a passion, it does not aim at exposing people but wants to capture the essence of a moment. A moment which might pass much too fast.
Photographers of Public Life
- Andreas Till
- Arthur Fleischmann
- Ferdinand Glockner
- Henrik Rieß
- Juan Buhler
- Markus Hartel
- Michael Ott
- Oliver Dienst
- Orville Robertson
- Robert Engelhardt
- Robert M Johnson
- Siegfried Hansen
- Stefan Voigt
- Sylwester Rozmiarek
- Ying Tang