Photographing The Streets

• Photographer
  Jack Weingarten
• Technical Info
  Unrecorded.
• Photo Date
  The photographs were taken on many dates over the years.

Street photography is a misnomer. In "Street Photography Now," the authors describe street photography as "the impulse to take candid pictures in the stream of everyday life." An actual street is not required. But we ignore the streets at our peril. Even an empty street describes the life of a city, past and present. An abandoned building speaks of urban decay while store windows reveal the latest fashions. Signs advertise the latest Broadway shows and what was once entertainment on New York's 42d Street. A city is the sum of its people and places. This is how I see the streets.