street photography street photography from Atget to Cartier-Bresson CLIVE SCOTT Reprinted in 2009 by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd 6 Salem Rd, London w2 4BU, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 First Published in 2007 by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd Copyright © Clive Scott 2007 The right of Clive Scott to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN 978 1 84511 223 3 Pb ISBN 978 1 84511 268 4 Hb A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress catalog card: available Typeset in ITC Bodoni Book by illuminati, Grosmont, www.illuminatibooks.co.uk Printed and bound in India by Thomson Press (India) Ltd. contents acknowledgements vii illustrations ix introduction 1 1 out of the studio into the street 21 2 the street-photographic and the documentary 57 3 street arts and street métiers 90 4 street photography: the appropriateness of language and an appropriate language 124 5 streets, buildings and the gendered city 162 conclusion 195 appendix 202 notes 211 references 221 index 229 acknowledgements I owe my sincere thanks to Kaye Baxter, for stepping into the task of tracking down images and permissions at short notice and for answer- ing the challenge with such resilient efficiency and good-humoured resourcefulness. We have done our utmost to trace and acknowledge all sources, and we apologize for those few instances where our searches were unsuccessful. I am also extremely grateful to my editor, Susan Lawson, for her unfailingly wise advice and much-appreciated encour- agement, and grateful, too, to Lucy Morton, who took the book through design and production so helpfully and with such flair. illustrations Hippolyte-Auguste Collard, Hôtel de Ville, after the Fire (1871) xiii (Hippolyte-Auguste Collard © Bibliothèque nationale, France) 1 André Kertész, Pavement (1929) 9 (André Kertész © Ministère de la Culture, France) 2 Robert Doisneau, Pavement (1932) 10 (© Robert Doisneau/RAPHO/HPP) 3 Wols, Pavement (1932–39) 11 (© Wols/DACS) 4 Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne (1911) 13 (Jacques-Henri Lartigue © Donation Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Paris) 5 Auguste Renoir, Place Clichy (c. 1880) 14 (© The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) 6 Édouard Manet, Music in the Tuileries (1862) 24 (© The National Gallery, London) 7 Édouard Manet, Luncheon in the Studio (1868) 25 (© Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen/Artothek) 8 Marcel Bovis, Champs-Elysées (c. 1930) 27 (Marcel Bovis © Ministère de la Culture, France) 9 Gustave Caillebotte, Nude Woman on a Sofa (1873) 28 (Private collection)