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“The Decisive Moment” by Henri Cartier-Bresson

I recently bought a copy of the newly released Steidl reprint of The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Like many street photography acquaintances of mine, we attribute much of our early exposure to the genre of street photography to the work of Cartier-Bresson. The Decisive Moment is a book that I always wanted to be able to browse through but due...

“New York Is” by Takayuki Ogawa & “71 New York” by Daido Moriyama

This post features 2 street photography books shot in New York by 2 different Japanese photographers. The first book New York Is is by the late Takayuki Ogawa. In April 1967, Takayuki Ogawa travelled to New York with his wife Wakako and spent about a year taking photographs. When I first looked through the photographs featured in...