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Lisette Model: Pioneer of street style photography

Posted Mar 5, 2010

Way before the Scott Schuman’s, Tommy Ton’s and Garance Dore’s of our time, the world of street style photography had Lisette Model. Swide takes a look at both her work and her contribution to street photography. 

 

By Lisette Model

It's almost impossible to talk about the future of street style photography without paying some kind of tribute to the pioneers who have helped make it what it is. Fans of the street photography have the chance to view the work of one of the world's most respected street photographers, Lisette Model, as Jeu de Peume in Paris, is currently exhibiting 120 photographs of her most representative work.

The photographs on display were taken from all over: streets of Paris, parks in New York, bars in Reno to even operas in San Francisco. Wherever Model could find dynamic people to photograph, she was there. Model believed that for a photograph to be successful "its subject had to be something that hits you in the stomach.” According to Model, the camera was " an instrument for probing the world, a way of capturing aspects of a permanently changing reality that otherwise we would fail to see".

The Sartorialist

The classic street style photo: intimate moment of a girl smoking outside. Whether outside of a fashion show or waiting on a bus, there's always something intriguing and mysterious about a woman with a cigarette in hand.

Lisette Model was known for her style of featuring close-ups and unforgiving cropped photographs with the aim of focusing entirely on her subjects.

 

By Lisette Model

Another street style photo:Foot-fetish. Doesn't matter what year it is, the shoes one wears is always well-noted.

Jak & Jil

For more information on Lisette Model's Exhibition which goes on until June 6th, 2010, visit Jeu de Paume's website.

 

Source: Jeu de Paume

Photo credits: Lisette Model, Scott Schuman and Tommy Ton

 

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