Street Faces - The Art of Candid Street Portraiture

Ebook, 2012. — 55 p.Thomas Leuthard: "This is my third eBook about street photography. This time I would like to write about my speciality, the candid street portraits. It’s a very direct and controversial way of shooting people in the street. There are a lot of people who like it, but there is even a bigger amount of people who don’t like it. Some people even say it’s not street photography at all. For me, it is what it is. It's a way of documenting the diversity of humanity in an honest, but very straight and uncommon way. Since I don’t ask the person, I take a photo of; most of the observers think it’s very rude. This may be true, but you will not get the desired result, if you do it in a different way. It’s my way and it’s my style. It’s what I like to do and what interests me. It’s not about the communication with the person which I shoot. It’s the directness of an unasked portrait of a stranger in the street."