这本书的出版是伴随着在伦敦Tate现代博物馆举办的一次展览而产生，题为《Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography》展览的照片都是拍摄于街头或者是摄影师工作室内，回归摄影最初的本源。TATE和Flickr与Blurb合作，免费用Flickr的网络空间，并邀请Flickr社区的成员创建这本摄影画册，作为入选展览的照片，每一张都是一副城市的肖像。 在Flickr里收到来自全球各地数千张照片参加街头或者室内摄影的展览。出版这本书是选取其中的100张作品。几个负责人：Juergen Teller，艺术家，他的作品参加了这次的展览。Ute Eskildsen：街头或者室内摄影展的策展人。Heather Champ：摄影师兼Flickr团队的成员。

Any examination of the history of the photographic portrait uncovers two very different traditions, shaped by the place where they were made - in the street or in the studio. Both are essentially urban. The street has been the place where small and easily concealed cameras allowed photographers to capture subjects unaware or at least in informal settings. In contrast, the studio offered both photographer and subjects the opportunity to present carefully composed images to the world, making use of all the elaborate staging and technical tricks at their disposal. Both these practices have since been subverted, with celebrities becoming used to posing in the street and the studio being used for informal and intimate shots. For the first time this book examines the contrasts and tensions between these two traditions, revealing much about the history of photography itself and providing fascinating insights into the changing face of societies across the globe.The book will include many of the greatest names in the history of photography. Among those who have famously photographed in the street, it will feature work by Atget, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Araki, Boris Mikhailov and Wolfgang Tillmans. Studio-based photographers include Carlo Ponti, Edward Steichen, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Annie Leibovitz, Jurgen Teller, and Rineke Dijkstra. Essays by leading critics examine the history of street and studio photography and how the images these photographers have produced has conditioned the way we see both the modern city and ourselves.