Street Photography: 

Street photography, also sometimes called candid photography, is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and candid photography, it is usually subtle with most street photography being candid in nature and some candid photography being classifiable as street photography. Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment. Though people usually feature directly, street photography might be absent of people and can be of an object or environment where the image projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic.

The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world “picturesque”.
Susan Sontag, 1977
The street photographer can be seen as an extension of the flâneur, an observer of the streets (who was often a writer or artist).Street photography can focus on people and their behavior in public, thereby also recording people’s history

Qoutes about Street Photography:

• “Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.”
  -Christopher Anderson
• There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes. – Abraham Lincoln
• Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. – Bruno Barbey
• “Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good” –Garry Winogrand.

Threshold concept #7:

The meanings of photographs are never fixed, are not contained solely within the photographs themselves and rely on a combination of the viewer’s sensitivity, knowledge and understanding, and the specific context in which the image is seen.