For decades, photographers walked city streets with a camera – not because they wanted to be 'street photographers', but simply because that’s where life happened.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus – none of them would have used the label, because at the time it didn’t exist. They weren’t chasing a genre; they were chasing moments. The photographs we now hold up as landmarks of 'street' were, at the time, just photographs of life.
