Streets have always drawn the attention of photographers. As both defining features of urban landscapes and places for all varieties of chance encounter, they offer a nearly endless
combination of static and moving elements that are the stuff of stunning photography��s the photographers in Road Atlas show brilliantly.
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From classic New York City street scenes by Helen Levitt to the works of the more contemporary street photographers, including, among others, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Beat Streuli, and Pieter
Hugo, Road Atlas presents a survey of the very best of street photography. Captured here is the everyday bustle of streets, sidewalks, and alleyways from Tokyo to S瓊o Paulo and beyond,
offering tantalizing glimpses of buildings and their inhabitants, people immersed in their daily activities��hedding light, in the process, on poverty and prosperity, stagnation and vanishing
urban spaces, and sometimes even of radical change. Through the practiced eyes of the twenty-eight artists showcased here, streets are threads linking cities and bringing people together yet
also tokens of the distances that separate them and consign them to solitude.
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With more than 100 photographs from the renowned DZ Bank art collection in Frankfurt, Road Atlas captures both the oft-overlooked moments of everyday life and the distinctive character
of cities worldwide. It accompanies an exhibition that will also be shown at the Opelvillen R羹sselsheim and the Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus.
