Top 10 greatest street pictures of all time. 

So glad I discovered your channel Rupert! Very insightful and enjoyable to watch keep it up man :)

Great video, glad you included photos from different styles! Would love to see another video like this for current street photos or even current street photographers and what you appreciate about their style/work.

Hi Rupert, the timing of this couldn’t be better for me. I am relatively new to photography, and self taught. I shoot almost anything almost anywhere as I learn about capturing light. Today I have been learning about the principles of design and it was fascinating to pause on each image and reflect on these principles on how each artist, followed or challenged these principles in each shot. I think this is what makes each image you chose so amazing and beautiful and I’m sure you could have chosen hundreds of others. Thanks for the great channel, look forward to the next one.

Thank you so much Rupert for sharing those brilliant images!

Thank you so much yet again for your work in providing us with such informative and enjoyable content!

Saw a few of your videos now, and I`m impressed with your consistency in the quality of the videos. Take your time and turn out more videos like this. Subscribed.

great selection! Thank you Rupert - love your videos

Great video, really enjoyed this.

Rupert, a great little video and Top 10 list. Like any Top 5-10-20 lists of anything, it is always so tempting to open the list with a "How many of them match mine?' mentality. What was really great about this list was that none of your 10 matched mine! Firstly, your choice (and omission) of photographers made me delve a little deeper into some of their work, and that has already given me a lot to think about. Secondly - even with some of your 'obvious' choices of photographers (how could a list like this not include a H C-B, a Haas or a Leiter?) - your pick of their photographs was also left-field and not at all obvious or expected. That made me think and analyse a little where you were coming from. In that respect your choices have had an influence on me. You said: "We can all learn from a close study of them..". We can also learn from other people's choices and preferences. So many thanks for that.

The Saul Leiter shot at 7:18 is so good. Great video Rupert, cheers.

Have we noticed one important thing that these ten shots from masters just enough to set fire on our craving for more of these?! The stamp of greatness of signature of each photograph is unique from one photographer to the other is so evident! 😮😮

Well done. Great choices. Thank you

Informative and thought provoking as always. Thanks!

Thank you. I really enjoyed this set and your explanations

Superb video as always - always look forward to the next one. You've chosen an excellent selection of top street photographers but there are so many that not all could make the top 10, I suppose - would have liked to see Garry Winogrand in there somewhere :). Obviously these are your selections but I think some of the other Ernst Haas images are more impactful - he is totally outstanding, as is Trent Parke and Saul Leiter. Also interesting is what you didn't say about some of the selected images. In the Meyerwitz street scene you focussed on the lion (which looks like it's got out!) but didn't mention the tall redhead looking in disbelief at what seems to be someone walking a tiny pony in a coat - for some reason my eyes always go there :) - or, in the Leiter image, the way the black curtain cut out has been carefully positioned to frame the tree in the background. Anyway, love your videos and your images and have bought your Fine Art Street Photography book (which I recommend to others). If only I was brave enough to immerse myself in streetlife brandishing a camera, maybe I could capture some decent images - ho-hum, one day.......

The Sailer picture at first glance I perceived him as a clown in white, what a great photo!

I can't believe most of these are in anybody's top 10! There are so many great photos out there and I don't think most of these come anywhere near the best ones. It seemed one of the main criteria was lesser known phots, rather than the best.

Thanks for sharing some really great street photographs, Rupert. I couldn't resist posting your video on our photography community platform. Subscribed and looking forward to more of your tutorials.

Magnifico gracias

Wonderful choice of photographs and explanations.

I've only seen one of these before. Thank you!

I discovered Harry Gruyaert last year and ended up buying two of his books at Christmas as well as a documentary video about him (which I can't remember the name of but it's also, very good).

Great selection, nice one. Funny how your Alex Webb choice is one with his infamous use of the silhouette, something that is now copied to death by street togs everywhere, and has now been labelled 'the curse of Alex Webb'! Trent Parke is incredible, his execution of the film medium is dream like. IMHO Meyerowitz is overrated and a big part of his success is of course his mentoring by Robert Frank, the one hit wonder of "Americans'. But what do I know? Subbed.

Thank you for this very interesting video. I'm happy to learn about Metzker who I haven't known and his sample piece is great.

A technical point worth noting is most of these photographs are not as sharp as modern photographs, and some like HCBs, are quite unsharp. Yet none would have been made better by being sharper. There is an intimacy in 10" to 15" prints that has been lost in the poster size images galleries typically display at.

Informative and enjoyable, thank you

Un choix très personnel!

A wonderful selection of street photography. Each shot is masterful and full of what street photography is all about. First time on your channel - I'll be back.

BRILLIANT choice of photos

Very good choice of images here thanks

Klein is probably my favourite street photographer. Listening to him talk about the shot of the boy with the gun is interesting. He engaged with the boy and promoted him to give him something. "The Many Lives of William Klein." I'd well worth a watch.

Enjoyed your book Rupert, and these are a cool selection. As you say everyone would likely be different on their choices. I may even pick the shot on page 167 of the book on the table in your video as a top 10.

The amazing thing that I never noticed about the Cartier-Bresson photo is that curve of the dark circle follows the man's suit, face and even top of the cap.

Excellent video, thank you. I saw great work other than what I expected, and that was appreciated. For the curious and interesting, captured in the essential moment, you might enjoy the work of Peter Kool. Thanks again.

Thank you for posting but I am sorry but other that Ernst Haas - William Klein - Cartier -Bresson the other pictures leave me cold. To me and of course we are all different, I just look at these other images and think "Emperors new clothes". Sorry I know that is not what convention wants me to say but after over 40 years of street social documentary photography - earning a living from it, I absolutely know that If I had submitted some of these images to my editor, they would have gone straight in the bin and I would have been looking for another job. Just because a photographer is a "name" doesn't mean that their work is automatically top rank. Having said that thank you for taking the trouble to post this video and stimulating discussion. Regards

At first, I was skeptic as to choosing only 10 best pictures of all time, but your choice was very good actually.

Hi congratulations I really like your videos!

Great selection! A good mix too, with some funny ones and some more contemplartive. Love Saul Leiter, if I could be as half as good as him I would be happy.. a

Hi Rupert, are you familiar at all with Japanese ukiyo-e prints? I collect ukiyo-e prints (especially shin hanga) and I became familiar with street photography primarily due to the similarities in composition and content (particularly with Hasui and the Yoshida family). It would be very interesting to see a comparative exploration of the two styles.

I was influenced by Bill Brandt. I used a Rolleicord like him when I was 16 years old. I now use a Ricoh GR digital 2005 model for black and white. I like Brandt because he was British.

Those were some interesting choices. I'm fan of Enrst Haas' work.

Thanks for sharing your top 10...how difficult......the only one that i do not like to be in the list were nº9 and 6....again, thank very much!

I'll put it this way, I've just subscribed to your channel 📷👍

I guess that's a matter of taste.

Just wondering if the picture samples are from books or an online archive? If an online archive, what’s the link? Thanks. 😀

I think I could find ten Harry Gruyaert pictures, and then some, to fill my top ten!

Great images. Although I don't agree on the Trent Parke image but that is only my opinion. My favourites from the list are Ernst Haas, Saul Leiter and Henri Cartier-Bresson. I would be interested to know who you think ranks highly of the present day generation of street photographers.

Interesting selection, and obviously subjective, have you checked on Fan Ho the Chinese photographer? While Cartier-Bresson or Leiter are to be in top g fi or sure I feel that a quick look through Fan Ho will fill all the positions from 1-10 easily….. obviously me subjective too

Interesting that I do not think any were from this century and yet there has been a massive growth of interest in the medium in recent years. Clearly images that you have loved for a long time and have influenced YOU, but the greatest 10, maybe not.

Question. Do any Black Male or Female street photographers catch your eye? Just asking for I know that not many black male street photographers or photographers of any nature barely exist and black female photographers and street photographers are almost none existent. I hope that can change for black females for I love street photography and hope I can stand out in it one day as an influence like the photographer Deana Lawson who inspired me. Thanks for the channel.

Is this a list of individual work or a list of photographers work that you like?

Only three shots from the whole selection are worth something today - Webb, Bresson (maybe because he also has much better shots) and of course Klein. It should be noted that for my taste this is a rather retired selection.

The featured picture of Ernst Haas is very similar to the image in the opening titles of Hitchcock`s "North by Northwest" (1953) designed by Saul Bass: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1ON67uYwGaw.html

No one beats HCB ....

I can’t help but think that there is a massive amount of luck involved in street photography too and the end image is described however you want to make it seem “amazingly skilful” ……

Old English speaking people should know better than to define “best” as something larger than the teeny tiny bubble they live within. The world is so freaking large and so talented, that once the west-centric and white-centric view is dismantled, the true picture (pun intended) will start to emerge.

Meyerowitz ?

#9 ???

I watched this whole video, mostly out of disbelief. This sounded like a parody of the reviews in an art magazine; an artist who sticks an empty canvas on the wall

Unfortunately, your headline is misleading clickbait: Top 10 greatest street pictures of all time. Your list is something else: One photo from each of your 10 favorite photographers. Your taste is clearly reflected in your choices. I like most of the photographers here, but I would have chosen better photos by some, e.g., Gruyaert, Leiter, Haas, Webb, and Meyerowitz. A true list of the top 10 greatest street pictures of all time would all be by Henri Cartier-Bresson. But that list wouldn't serve any purpose.

Of all time, REALLY? only your opinion

What do I think? The pole is a great mistake. I like tilt as an artistic choice. Here, it looks like a mistake. Were it mine, I would crop it or bin it. Trent Parke is good. Not very old either. 3:13 has inspired me to make photos similar to this. He did it on film, I do it in post. His pole at 3:15 matches up nicely with the shadows. 3:27 looks like Australia to me. I'd like to see you reproduce that one. 8:26 I have a handful like this. Not necessary entirely negative space, with speckles of something. Perhaps this should have been "Ten of my favourites, The First." Leaves room for more, perhaps some suggested by the comments here. I mostly prefer contrasty black and white, like Sean Tucker. Trent is good, if you haven't yet, watch "The Black Rose."

The #9 image by Klein was actually posed with the kid acting it out.

Fan Ho?

Obvious click bait title! Why not call it MY top ten ???? The Meyerowitz I find rather mediocre, also Melanie Einzig (never heard of her...). Showing a rather black & white pic of a master of color like Leiter also does not seems overly clever to me. HCB? Sooo many better (and sharper) examples here. And where is Vivian Maier??

Really? Not sure about the Parke image but the most recent you’ve presented is Einzig’s from 2000. Has there been no great street photography in the last 23 years or are you just wallowing in nostalgia? Sorry.

You should have named the video :""Top 10 greatest street pictures of all time IN MY OPPIONION".... But I am sure you wanted to get more viewers with less effort.

very poor choice of photos

I can't believe most of these are in anybody's top 10! There are so many great photos out there and I don't think most of these come anywhere near the best ones. It seemed one of the main criteria was lesser known phots, rather than the best.