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, mysterious and unsettling — were curated by Gulnara Samoilova, a former Associated Press photographer and founder of the Women Street Photographers project.