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Under the title Streetwise, the gallery concurrently presents selected works by Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Anthony Hernandez, Helen Levitt, Dieter Meier, Max Regenberg and Beat Streuli. The genre of street photography translates the dynamic experience of the urban environment, showing everyday scenes in the public space of the city. In most cases, the encounters do not go beyond the moment the picture is taken, but they develop a poetic depth within the photograph, make certain structures of perception visible and capture social experiences. Both distance and closeness are palpable in …