Street Photography Is Cool

Street Photography Is Cool
	Preface and Introduction
		Preface
		Introduction
	Section One - Because It's Contradictory, Like the Human Condition
		Section One Intro
		1. It's All About People
		2. Yet People Can Be Absent
		3. It Can Be Tough & Gritty
		4. Or Shamelessly Picturesque
		5. Fun to Do on Sunny Days
		6. Get Cooler Shots on Rainy Days
		7. It's Difficult to Do Well
		8. But Is Sometimes Quite Easy
		9. Street Photography: Superficial?
		10. But It Can Also Be Profound
		11. It Has An Emotional Side
		12. But It's Often Deadpan
		13. It's Becoming More Colourful
		14. Yet Once Was Only Monochromatic
		15. Sometimes Precisely Meaningful
		16. Often Apparently Meaningless
		17. It's All About Light
		18. It's All About Shadows
		19. It Captures a Moment in Time
		20. Or Creates a Timeless Moment
		21. It Can Be Glamourous
		22. It Can Be Seedy
		23. There's Beauty In It
		24. And Ugliness, Too
		25. Funny? Lighthearted? Amusing?
		26. Or Solemn, Serious & Earnest?
	Section Two - Because It Helps Us View the World As It Is
		Section Two Intro
		27. Recording the Chaos of the Street
		28. Bringing Order from Chaos
		29. Looking and Seeing
		30. Getting a Balanced View
		31. Awareness of Change
		32. You're Shooting for History
		33. More Than Just Surfaces
		34. Chasing Down Details
		35. Form v. Content, Form Wins
		36. Content v. Form, Content Wins
		37. Words Are Mostly Content
		38. The Viewer's Imagination
		39. Dramatise, Undramatise
		40. It's a Colourful World
		41. Getting Up Close & Personal
		42. Taking the Longer View
		43. The Extended Moment
		44. Multiple Moments in One Shot
	Section Three - Because It Can Tolerate Many Compositional Structures
		Section Three Intro
		45. It Depends How You See It
		46. The Cinematic Style
		47. The Beauty of Symmetry
		48. The Beauty of Asymmetry
		49. The Joy of Juxtaposition
		50. All Kinds of Contrast
		51. Achieving Balance
		52. Deliberate Imbalance
		53. The Complexity of Layers
		54. Getting the Flat Look
		55. The Urge to Simplify
		56. Tending Towards Abstraction
		57. Anchored by a Central Object
		58. Using Visual Rhythms
		59. Wide Angle v. Short Telephoto
		60. From Above or Below
		61. Deliberately Confusing Images
		62. Subject in the Centre: Simples!
	Section Four - Because It's a Very Democratic Art Form
		Section Four Intro
		63. It Has a Low Cost of Entry
		64. Easy to Start, Hard to Improve
		65. Canals, Parks, Malls Are Streets
		66. People Are Equal in the Street
		67. Celebrating the Ordinary
		68. A Cat Can Look at a King
		69. Dancing in the Streets
		70. Street Eats and Drinks
		71. Using Posters
		72. Using Graffiti
		73. Street Portraits: Candid
		74. Street Portraits: Posed
		75. Finding a Personal Style
	Section Five - Because It's a Tough and Potentially Perilous Activity
		Section Five Intro
		76. How Perilous Can It Be?
		77. Defusing a Confrontation
		78. Don't Be Discourteous! Ever!
		79. Is Anything Off-Limits?
		80. Is Anything Else Off-Limits?
		81. Right Place, Right Time
		82. Hardcore Street: Too Tough to Do?
		83. Bad Weather Street Photography
		84. It's OK to be Anxious
		85. Limbering Up
		86. Working The Scene
		87. 10 Strategies for Success
		88. Developing a Sixth Sense
		89. Reaching "The Zone"
	Afterword
	About the Author