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Ann Levin This cover image released by Prestel shows "Women Street Photographers," a collection of photos edited by Gulnara Samoilova. (Prestel via AP) March 08, 2021 - 7:06 AM “Women Street Photographers,” edited by Gulnara Samoilova (Prestel) When Parisian authorities issued a decree in 1800 requiring women to obtain a permit to wear pants in public, the French writer George Sand defied the order. She dressed in men’s clothes and walked from one end of Paris to the other, later writing about the exhilarating feeling of being able to go wherever she...

Melissa Breyer, a writer and photographer, recounts that bit of feminist history in an excellent introduction to a new book, "Women Street Photographers," arguing that Sand’s "peripatetic explorations" of 1830s Paris helped pave the way for later generations of women who would use cameras, not pens, to chronicle their impressions of public life. The book showcases the work of 100 women around the world today using cameras and cellphones to capture the lyrical moments of everyday life — what Henri Cartier-Bresson once called "the decisive moment." The pictures —tender and funny, mysterio...