"Why Would an L.A. Artist Make Pedestrian Street Photographs?"

"Virtually all street photographs since Daguerre, regardless of style or subject, were conceived as a pedestrian's activity. With few exceptions, street photographs were what you took while walking in the city, often with a hand-held camera. "But nobody walks in L.A.—at least, they didn't used to, according to the old cliché (and the old Missing Persons song). Sprawling, freeway-carved Los Angeles rendered obsolete a distinction that arose from a European idea of urban experience"

In the Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight compares street photography by Robert Frank and Ed Ruscha.

And also in the Los Angeles Times, Booth Moore profiles pioneering street-fashion photographer Bill Cunningham.