Travel Photo Thursday: “Finding Vivian Maier”
“Street photography.”
What is it? Who does it?
Wikipedia says that:
“Street photography is a genre of photography that features subjects in candid situations within public places and does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment. ‘Street’ simply refers to a place where human activity can be seen, a place to observe and capture social interaction. The subject can even be absent of any people and can be that of object or environment where an object projects a human character or an environment is decidedly human.”

Although I don’t consider myself a “street photographer” per se, this photo which I took in London four years ago certainly qualifies as “street photography.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson (photo at right), Louis Stettner, and Garry Winogrand are just three of the world’s most famous street photographers.
But who’s ever heard of Vivian Maier, someone that could be described as a “closet street photographer”?