Famous street photography

Follow these ten street photographers on Instagram for a feed filled with impressive people and cityscapes from around the world.

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer who was known for "candid" photography. He was also an early user of 35 mm film. He was born in 1908 and died in 2004. Part of his book, The Decisive Moment, 1952 I personally like this photo because it shows how composed a candid photo can be. This photo clearly was taken quickly, as he had to capture the birds flying away, but it looks as if a lot of time and planning went into it. He talks about this candid, quick photography in his book The…

In Fan Ho's most recent book, A Hong Kong Memoir, Ho goes into his old archives and finds never-before-seen images from the 1950s and 1960s.

Joel Meyerowitz. Camel Coats, New York City, 1975. #joelmeyerowitz "Towards Colour 1962-1978" at Beetles+Huxley in London. #beetleshuxley #streetphotography #americanphotography #gallery#americangreatness

Street photography captures the beauty of the everyday. We're all familiar with urban spaces, but street photographers observe their surrounding with a sharper eye. They can see the unusual in the everyday, the funny in the dull, and the extraordinary in the ordinary.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson. Behind the Gare St. Lazare. 1932. Gelatin silver print, printed 1950s. 13 7/8 × 9 1/2" (35.2 × 24.1 cm). Gift of the artist, by exchange. 249.2005. © 2025 Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris. Photography