10 Street Photographers EVERY Photographer MUST Know

[@szz1070]

I'm glad it's not another gear review of stuff I can't afford. More of this type of content please.

[@catmonkey6826]

Yes! Gear stuff is ok but unless it relates to your choice between video or stills or both and then also involves an eco system that's relevant to you it becomes mute. Our man has a huge wealth of knowledge that I feel is untapped. History, technique and both where they collide is what I get excited about.

[@joseph-the-seventh]

If you search through this channel’s older videos there’s tons of content like this. Ted has been doing this stuff for awhile.

[@szz1070]

@@joseph-the-seventh I subscribed to this channel some years ago. Content like this was the main reason why I subscribed in the first place. Not many channels talk about photography the artform these days. Too much emphasis on gears that people forget to shoot with their heart.

[@Jay-jb2vr]

@@szz1070 True

[@MrEdIsTheSource]

szz1070 I agree but I would like to expand a bit. I would like to still see videos about gear but with an emphasis of what makes a lens unique, some ways you can use it, what it really excels at, etc.

[@JayMacroPhotos]

I like these types of videos when you talk about artists. I know it probably doesn’t get as many views as gear reviews but you do such a good job at sharing knowledge. Thanks!

[@Dreyno]

Weird. I skip most of the gear reviews. This is far more interesting.

[@32ndFoto]

Welcome back.... Glad to see photographers and photographs being discussed again.. 👏

[@rishikapaul4740]

💕💕

[@one42chrisp]

This is the Ted Forbes that I like 😀

[@khaifal9268]

absolutely

[@kasparsr]

I mean you have to earn a living too. Gear videos ar much more popular: kzbin.infovideos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid

[@xilefxilefxilefxilef]

This is why I come back. Not thehardware reviews.

[@lalione]

I watched this many many times

[@johnshiever2998]

More like this! Inspires me to just get out there instead of having GAS over the newest piece of technology. The new tech will not necessarily improve my images.

[@Hans_Landa_S.S]

I didn't know about Charles Négre. MY GOD, i love that work. And to think he did it as a way to gather material for his paintings.

[@sbai4319]

Thanks Ted, not just for this video but also for introducing me to even more influential photographers. This is the kind of video that got me interested in your channel six years ago. Cheers from Australia Steve

[@thenickbw]

Hey Ted, fellow fort worth'er here hoping your having a good rainy evening. Your channel has been the introduction to many photographic styles and photographers that have since become huge inspirations for me over the years. I haven't seen Ted Cronners work before and WOW! Thank you for all the great content and discussions here.

[@thomasnuckols]

Mr Forbes, I love these videos. Going 'old school' AOP is definitely appreciated!

[@panagiotistsiverdis]

I really love your channel! It talks about artist and about the love of photography! You are focusing on what 's important! It's so refreshing to hear about artists in a medium such as youtube where the algorithm pushes everyone to create content about gear - gear - gear.

[@MichaelSmith-zw5fu]

was really hoping to see some Fan Ho, but I love the mention of Gordon Parks

[@peskymacaw9033]

Well... he has like 2 videos on Fan Ho's photography already.

[@MichaelSmith-zw5fu]

@@peskymacaw9033 and at least one video on gordon parks...

[@pixiedixie3682]

Michael Smith Oh yeah! Another incredible photographer!

[@laartwork]

Yes Fan Ho ranks right up there on my Mount Rushmore. Along with Sid Leiter, Vivian Maier and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

[@dhaug]

That's a great, and inspiring list of street photographers. We can learn so much from them... If there was an eleventh pick, I'd certainly include Vivian Maier.

[@jamesurzykowski4918]

I love when you do photo history videos! Like you say there are so many good street photographers out there. All the more reason to do a continuation of this video.

[@thefoundimage]

Great List!!! If it was a top 20 I would add Max Yanvo, Diane Arbus, Winogrand, Bruce Davidson, Roy De Carava, Eugene Richards, Eisenstaedt, William Klein, Elliott Erwitt and Walker Evans

[@Bolton115]

I've been watching and appreciating your photo lit series for several years now. I feel like they're a lot better than the classes I took in college back in the '90s. Thank you!

[@ottersphotography304]

No matter what your topic, I ALWAYS learn from you. Thank you so much for the variety of thoughtful content you produce.

[@Bloggerky]

So happy to have a thoughtful review of the artistic works of many photographers. Other than a few brief mentions (wide angle, view camera, etc.) it was devoid of tech talk. Many thanks.

[@44492611]

I really like this video because many of the images you show bust the myth that street photography is just randomly snapping and hoping something turns out. Most of these images were either carefully composed and waiting for someone to enter or the person is well aware they are being photographed, if not always posed in the image.

[@Wikipal13]

I constantly rewatch the old stuff about photographers. It was great to see some new photographers I haven't hear of. I am about to go out and shoot and I have google searched all the photographers I haven't heard of. I am excited to come home and look through. I am also going to see if there any episodes of the candid frame with interviews with the Africa American photographers. I love these rabbit holes

[@xavierhudon-macdonald6918]

Street photography is definitely the essence of photography itself, as it embodies the one crucial element of photography, observation. The controversy around Martin Parr’s colour work and his admission to Magnum could have been an interesting subject to discuss in this video-essay as his work has inspired the fashion photography scene a lot in the past decade. Street photography and observation is great practice for pretty much all genres of photography and other art forms. William Klein, who also lived in NYC as a pioneering street photographer, became a well known Vogue photographer. Vogue and Klein collaborated for over a decade in the mid-twentieth century.

[@colinhicks5135]

I've been diving back into your older videos where you cover specific photographers. Very glad to see you're getting back into this type of content.

[@root9065]

Can I just say thanks for all the time you've put into teaching us about the history of photography and technique in general. Not enough channels do this. Thank you sir, bless your heart. 🙏

[@jesusinclan5879]

Thanks for sharing Ted. This is the main reason why I love your channel. Your insight on the history of photography.

[@eesuuorundide3967]

What an excellent job you did of putting together this diverse list of inspiring, influential photographers. Watching your video has been a great experience.

[@daretoseeit]

Moriyama & Vivian Mayer remain my favorites, though I love all those you mentioned.... Thanks a lot this beautiful list. Greetings from Morocco 🇲🇦

[@TheGazmondo]

Wonderful to see you back doing what you are great at !!

[@tilerman]

The Gary Winogrand image at 13.51 is amazing, one of my all time favourite pictures. Beautiful.

[@jimmiealeshire7605]

Awesome stuff. I lived thru the 50s,60s,70s,till 2020. and saw a lot of the times you referred to in this video. Thanks for sharing my life with me. Really enjoyed.

[@edoardodario]

I came across your channel almost a year ago when I was starting out photography and watched some of your videos and now this video came in my recommendations and I really enjoyed watching it! It’s so inspiring and I discovered new photographers and new photography! Very beautiful video!!

[@llchan]

I don't have 10, but I really admire Henry Cartier-Bresson, Fan Ho, & Helen Levitt. Especially Fan Ho because I grew up in Hong Kong. I like some of Robert Frank's work considering his place in photographic history. Not sure if you count Walker Evans as a street photographer but I like Evans too. By the way, some photos that you showed in La Strada were amazing. I wish I could get a hold of a copy.

[@afsp2007]

From Chile! Thank you for this, I’m always looking at new photographers to check out. I would recommend Sergio Larraín, a Chilean photographer, worked for Magnum, his photography is a bit surreal. His work influenced the story that inspired the film Blowup. Very different and awe inspiring work.

[@the6millionpman424]

I really mean this in the best way I can say it.......this is the best video you have done for a while Ted. Really, REALLY enjoyed this. Hearing you talk about photographers I've not heard of and giving me ideas for people I want to learn more about is exactly why i first started watching years ago:) More of this content please.

[@philipshucet9481]

Just watched this again. It never gets old because there’s always something to learn. Thanks again Ted.

[@stephenwyatt7747]

hi Ted, love your channel. You have introduced me to a number of great photographers, Josef Sudek in particular as well as W. Eugene Smith are two of my favorites. i noticed a photograph of Rashaan Roland Kirk in this video that was taken at the jazz loft. i love his album The Inflated Tear a classic jazz tune with an interesting back story that was probably inspired by those late night jams you mentioned in the video. Must have been one of the coolest places on earth to hang out at the time .Thanks Ted for intorducing me to so many talented photographers, keep up the noble work.

[@stevemessam3625]

Thank you. There’s some names in there I’m not so familiar with, and some I definitely need to revisit. Agree with many of the other comments - this is how we discovered your channel years ago. The gear reviews may get the clicks but there’s hundreds of other channels doing that. So few doing this - the art of photography. Keep it up. Good stuff!

[@silaswolfe381]

Please keep on making these videos! I want to stop looking at “popular” crap and start looking at good stuff, no matter what the era

[@skwaab]

Cartier-Bresson was the first photographer I saw works of that made me feel that photography is a form of artwork, absolutely stunning.

[@josewantland]

Great History video, I’m currently taking photography classes at OCC ( Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa California ), the rumor says that school is one of the best school for video and photography because the experience of the teachers and equipment, I was always interested on the thecnical aspects of photography but I took a class called “History and Aesthetics of photography” and is so amazing to learn how started, I even converted my tiny loft apartment into a “Camera Obscura” and the results were incredible, your video covered a lot of what I saw in class, people need to learn about all that, not just pick a camera and start shooting, Thank again. Jose W.

[@mopixel]

Thanks for exposing Smith's work to people. I saw a monumental exhibit of the Pittsburgh project at the Carnegie Museum in the Pitt and it was awe inspiring.

[@mikeackYT]

When you've spent the last few weeks consuming nearly everything street photography related on KZbin and a video from one of your favorite channels drops some content on the matter the next day. Thank you for this!

[@chrismcphee8679]

Much better! Really, I can go anywhere for reviews of gear I'm not going to buy, but I come to Ted for the education, the photo books and the artists. This is how it used to be on AOP - good stuff!

[@chepo1956]

Hello Ted. Jose from Puerto Rico. Fascinating video! I really enjoyed this one. You are a true scholar of Photography and your channel is a breath of fresh air on KZbin. I never get tired of watching and listening to your narration of the history of Photography. Joel Meyerowitz is one of my favorites too. I'd love to hear you talk someday about Jay Maisel, Pete Turner, Ernst Haas, and Fan Ho.

[@atamola]

This is the type of content I like to see. A pity that most people only crave gear reviews.

[@arunashamal]

Show mercy for this poor class and tasteless fool, you singularly magnificent human. I am not worthy..

[@Ruylopez778]

They want instant results, and definitive answers through specs lists. Thinking and practice are too open ended for them

[@nathanmeyer6743]

Love these videos, Ted. You provide us such a great education - highly appreciated! All best from Korea

[@stefanriegel9099]

Wonderful video Sir. I never heard about Ted Croner, but immedialtly fall in love with his blurry pictures.

[@ablueslenz]

This is the type of content that brought me to this channel. Thanks for the insight, especially about Kamoinge. I’ve never heard of the group.

[@1young-geezer]

Ted - this is a wonderfully important video. I have not come across most of these photographers, I classify myself as a photo/artist tho so half baked, and this video is like a banquet of raw beauty that I’m sooooo appreciative of you sharing. My favorite videos of yours have lead this direction, and loved those. There’s just such a balance achieved w/ the direction of modern photography, and sifting through bygone, more or less, of the past artists. You’ve again enriched my evening.

[@raulc557]

I really miss seeing these style of videos on you channel ted hopefully we can keep getting them

[@MiladJP]

I highly approve this list and would like to include 20 ppl more :D Ah the good old days with some education and history lessons from Ted :)

[@raymorgan4337]

This is the kind of video I love to watch. Your passion, knowledge and humility shine through. Fabulous selection of photographers; I hadn't heard of some of them which only whets my appetite to discover more about them. Thanks.

[@paulbartell9890]

Ted, thank you for for this video, so well done. Themes like this are why I subscribed to your channel. Lots of guys are doing gear posts but no one that I have found creates insightful videos on The Art of Photography the way you do , Please Keep em coming!

[@mohamedkhalil1474]

You have done a great video here, all photographers you have mentionned are the most interesting ones. Thank you Ted !

[@NapoleonSuarez]

I love all your new content and your camera reviews. You give a different perspective as someone who actually taught photography, but I do really enjoy it when you take it back to the greats and share those classic images and why they were so important. I'm obsessed with street photography, but it wasn't until I saw your video on W. Eugene Smith that I realized just making a compelling image with some bokkeh isn't enough. You need a body of work to tell a complete story and you have to do it with passion. Keep doing what you do, but please continue sprinkling in stuff like this. Oh, and bring back the Pinterest boards in the vids if you can :) Thanks, Ted!

[@Linkmat97]

Love these kinds of videos ! That's what initially got me into your channel wayyy back when you were doing the composition series. Those videos even helped me in my architecture career! ☺️

[@JRodPhotoArt]

Thank you for putting this together and showing us these wonderful artists

[@wilkbor]

I absolutely agree with the previous comment. It's great to hear commentary on photographers who can produce amazing images.

[@allenjcarter]

Good Stuff! I guess I'm not alone in being disappointed by so much tech and so little Art on this channel in the last couple of years.

[@CalumetVideo]

Great video! Saul Leiter’s color work is phenomenal. I think his work gets better with time.

[@scott-ish404]

You can tell; it shows it; this was from the heart. Thanks for some of the (to me) relatively unknown but talented names in it.

[@barbiq7873]

Really enjoyed this. Lots to explore and learn from your list of amazing photographers. Thank you.

[@StopFear]

Amazingly valuable and important info in this video. I think many people watching it still have no idea what ISO is since they probably didn’t ever use a film camera, not even a disposable Kodak camera.

[@jasoncario7063]

Thank you so much for this video! I will do some more research on these amazing photographers! Thank goodness for quality photography channels like this!

[@arfreeman11]

I love these history videos. I understand the art and art history videos are works of love. The gear videos pay the bills. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. The Artist series was sooo good. Ted is also the guy that taught me all the stuff I've forgotten about composition. I need to rewatch so many things. I don't think I'll every be a great photographer, but every time I spend a few hours walking and intentionally practicing 1 specific form of composition, I feel a little more proud of my work. I need to get out and shoot more.

[@KisDraga]

I love love Henri C-B's work 💕 thank you for sharing the others Im definitely going to look more into them!

[@dadisiolutosin4279]

This is the type of video that initially brought me to your channel Ted. The gear reviews are fine but this is where you shine sir. There's a maturity in discussing photography that gear channels simply don't have. You have been around long enough where when you talk about photography philosophically people listen. Please continue to bring this content back, this is what your loyal followers want to hear. Also, unless I missed something, there were no women on this list. Can you do 10 street photographers who are women video as well? I'm sure you can make room on that list for photographers like Vivian Maier, Hele Levitt, etc.

[@greatpix]

Back in the 70's I attended a lecture of his. One of my fondest memories. I also met George Hurrell, I chatted with him for over 30 minutes about the photos he was showing at the Irvine Fine Arts Center, only I didn't know who he was at the time! I was just getting into vintage pinup photography and old style Hollywood Glamour and didn't know until a year or so later, after reading his obit in the newspaper, who I'd been taking with. I'm sure he didn't know what to make of me. Probably thought I was ignorant as heck. I was fortunate to study photography at Orange Coast College in the early 70's where John Upton was head of the department and I took some classes from him. He literally wrote the book many schools and universities used as text for decades. Other favorites were John Sanford, who I became friends with for many years afterwards and taught me astro photography as well as the earthly kind, and Arthur Taussig who I'd run into all the time over the decades to follow and who I was assistant for in the color darkroom. He is very technically minded and I learned a lot from him. He said I had a good eye for color, which is why he had me assist him with other students in the color darkroom. Basically so I answered what color packs the student needed to get the best print and he didn't have to bother with that mundane chore. I loved it though.

[@craigdaugherty133]

Love your videos! Thanx for making them. I was at U Texas in the mid 1970's at law school. The art school was next door and filled with hot girls. So, having loved photography all my life I signed up for a B&W film course. Garry Winogrand turned out to be the professor. I had no idea who he was. Class was about 10 people sitting in a conference room while Garry projected onto a screen the best B&W photos ever taken (though none of them were by him). He sat with his back to us silently looking at the pics for a few minutes for each slide. During the first class someone asked him why he liked a particular picture. He said, "Just look at it." I don't remember him saying anything else that semester or the next. An assistant gave us our assignments and oversaw our lab where we printed our pictures in a wonderful, brand new facility. I saw him frequently prowling the streets full of students around the campus shooting his Leica. He was a rather intimidating presence so I never spoke to him, but I treasure those hours studying the best photography ever made.

[@martinjohnston4274]

Great video! Very enlightening and informative. A lot of great names mentioned in there too. It's refreshing to watch photography videos about photography instead of equipment. Thank you!

[@alfonseeeee]

Just discovered your channel! Loved specially Gary's work. Thanks for this video!

[@markwingrat3608]

One of THE BEST enriching photography sessions I have seen so far! Ted, PLEASE use this one as a template for many more and thanks for bringing this to life!

[@photomitch]

Vivian Meyers, but there's a lot of street photographers who work is outstanding. I love this list you created. I've been doing it myself since I was in High School in the late 60's with my instamatic until I was able to afford to purchase a 35mm camera. Thanks for this video. I've been away from youtube for a while an I really need a huge break from the political carp. Thanks again...

[@markpeterson3400]

Thank you! Great video, I know some of these photographers work, and made notes to study the ones I didn't know. Thank you!

[@scampagni7761]

A good list of classics, we know theres so many more who you could /you should. Happy to see this type of stuff again and another artists series would be great.

[@TheIndolence]

Really good Ted! What a performance too! You should do a 6 hour video and carry on throughout historical photographers. I'd watch it in one go.

[@_parkphoto]

Ok first off, what an amazing list and oh so useful as I look for more photo books. Second off, I am speechless at how well the two images per spread work together in La Strada. Clearly much care and attention was given to that which is perfect as an example as I ponder creating my own photo book.

[@buleulek5153]

Thank you ! Great video ! Please keep going 😊 I would love to see more about each photographer and with more examples of them great work. I like to her your thoughts and feelings about it as well !!! Thank you again and waiting for more 😊

[@philipshucet9481]

Hey Ted! Hope you’re staying well. Thanks for pulling in some lesser known photographers among the better known group. It’s important to expand our knowledge base as we pursue our own work. Nice!

[@emilybarlow4328]

So glad to see some old style Ted back. So much to learn from these types of videos 😀

[@leonisalpha4537]

Miss this old kind of content. That's what got me on this Chanel.

[@warshipsdd-2142]

Had the pleasure of meeting both Gene Smith and Gordon Parks back when I was a photojournalist, and worked with Norm Rabinowitz, who was Smith's assistant on his Pittsburgh essay. They were true greats.

[@ChetanDodwad]

Loved it. Thanks for coming up with this one. 😍😍🤗🤗

[@marksantostefano1637]

I learned photography in the late 60s and worked as a photojournalist on my universities newspaper so I appreciate your perspective and these fine photographers that you’ve mentioned. In my opinion the street photography today has become too much of a fad. There’s a bunch of people who go and simply take photos of people on the street… But there’s no theme, no perspective, no moment, no sense of composition, no sense of light, no story… Just people on the street. All the street photography sites are flooded with this type of “street photography” it seems.

[@michaelsaks4744]

I'm more excited to see street photographers I've never heard of rather than the ones I've known for years.

[@steveperkins3718]

Just love Sauls work. Was fortunate to see an exhibition of his work in Tokyo a few years ago. Amazing use of colour

[@johnstephen2869]

Greetings from NZ and thanks for the ‘old school’ list. I’ll make it my mission to search out these marvellous guys who paved the way for us.

[@PhobsPr]

I really love your educational videos about photography and photographers. Hope you ca do it more often.

[@enriquemenacho8976]

I enjoy your equipment reviews, but I love your work on great photographers!!! Thank you for this great video.

[@VenTaTX]

Great videos !! I was an analog amateur photographer and I´m getting into photography again with digital. I´m 59 years old and your videos are very good for knowing the right way of this fascinating hobby (or job, it depends). Thank you !! Hello from México !!

[@alexkilbee1837]

I much prefer this type of content Ted. I get it that your gear type videos get more views, but hell man, everyone does that. So few people talk about photography properly, so it's a shame when one whose actually able to, doesn't bother anymore.

[@griessman76]

Hey Ted, thanks for doing keeping this photography-centric. I have a few general questions bouncing around that I hope you have time to address: - What do you think made a photographer successful in the previous eras that you discuss, vs now? - Most of the artistic analysis seems to be done in hindsight, but is there any work from current photographers that you follow and can point out similar features? It would be amazing to see like a "top modern photographers I follow today and why" type of thing.

[@ABHI16PRAD]

Wow...I got the exact same question in my mind...So I understood is thag street photography has a lot to do with gone era or time.. where when you look at the pictures ..one tends to look at all details and just imagine how was it then...and all..and thus it becomes classic.... Even the street photographers alive today from past era keep sharing their archives....so Street photography has the time (in past tense) attached to it to make it more attractive

[@terrymorganphotography]

Thank you for this video. My education and inspiration into Street Photographer continues. I'm a keen subscriber to Alex Kilbee (the photographic eye) and I'm glad he pointed me in your direction. I would of course me interested to know if you have any UK based photographers (notably street photographers) in your cannon of people who impress you. I say this because, obviously I'm from the UK, but also because someone I feel I can learn from and have been following on KZbin is Brian Lloyd Duckett (StreetSnappers) . Thanks again for being instrumental in my photographers journey.

[@zguy95135]

I know the gear reviews have to be done, but I love these old school videos. The artist and photographer series have been played through many times in my living room.

[@jlid1]

Loved this Ted, and love your enthusiasm about the subject, it is so infectious! But....I spent the whole video hoping you would mention John free. John in my opinion is a living legend. I really liked this video, and you're the only one I know of doing them, thanks for that!!

[@estern53]

Hi, I just discovered your channel. Love this video, I would add Eugene Atget and André Kertész. Kertész '60 years of Photography' which came out in 1973 is a seminal book on street photography. Henri Cartier-Bresson counted him as a mentor during the late 1920s and early 1930s. I had the opportunity to meet Kertész in 1976.

[@ashis5]

You have always been my mentor. Thank you for existing. I love the Artist series plus Photo assignment. Keep doing.

[@angello8324]

Thanks for sharing. Your content it’s something that I didn’t know I needed and the algorithm showed it and I loved it.

[@leslieadkins6276]

I love these episodes. Its been months since I've tuned in. It feels like photography tonight.

[@fbmooers]

Thank you, thank you, thanks you. Love the introduction to some photographers that are new to me and some that I return to again and again for good reason. Please keep doing these reviews, these running overviews of various approaches to photography - the art of photography.

[@jjccllgg]

Thank you so much for your video! A couple of photgraphers worth looking at are Daido Moriyama and Vivian Maier. I am sure you know them. I understand there are sooo many out there!!!

[@ChristianMartinez-su3nb]

Here's one of my favorite photographers, Enrique Metinides was a Mexican photographer pupular in the 50's, 60's & 70's who was known as the "The Kid" and his main focus was accidents, it was well known that he would be among the first ones to arrive into the crime scene in order to take pictures.