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Why Street Photography is not Documentary Photography

Why Street Photography is not Documentary Photography

“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth” – Pablo Picasso

Look-up ‘Street Photography’ in Wikipedia and the attempt to define it starts with ‘… a form of documentary photography’. But is it really? Both Street Photography and Documentary photography are well understood traditions, so why is it that the former is so easily confused for the latter?

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