In Klein's work I always see dynamic and a lots of movement, he uses blur to add more intensity to it. The direction of the guy in focus is left to right while the other person is walking the opposite way. The two persons differ in a few ways but also similar to each other. One is young or at least younger then the other, and I think the man on the left is also a dad or the child could be his daughter as well and he just arrived to them. The younger guy who is in movement, looks energetic, happy and also happy to be photographer meanwhile the other person is slowing down a bit as he looks a bit more relaxed and older maybe wiser. What I'm trying to say what I see there is the difference between the ages it could be just a couple of years but it appears for me on this picture. They both wearing suit one is wearing dark one is wearing a darker one. I also think about the vertical line between the two person it could referee to be a mirror between the young energetic and the older, wiser family man. They both enjoying a pepsi that is a similarity between them so that's why I thought about my mirror idea.
Bibliography: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2013/04/03/175605582/you-cant-put-a-headline-on-william-klein
The photograph is from Robert Frank's The Americans book, which has been published in 1958. The book is about the post-war American life, how the photographer who was born in Switzerland seen it. He saw a different country than other people saw, he hasn't born in the country so he had the independent view on Americans. Interested about the tension in the gloss of American culture and wealth over race and class differences which gave a clear contrast to the other contemporary photojournalists.
On this image we can see bus or a tram, with open windows and through each window one person looking out. The composition is very interesting because the windows kind of split the image into individual parts, like portraits of each person. When I look on this photograph I think it is a very well composed image and also a good portraiture of the Americans in that time. Because the people look into the camera and not into the direction where the bus goes, makes the image more like a portrait than a street photograph.
Bibliography: Robert Frank (1958). The Americans. France: Robert Delpire, Grove Press, Steidl. 180.
The last photograph I will have a look at today is from my internet research and it is a portrait photograph which has been seen as a part of the Taylor Wessel portrait prize exhibition.
First what I see on the photograph is a portrait of a tired looking young woman. Then I looked into the photograph bit more and I discovered the mud patches and the dirt on her clothes and on her face. Her clothing refers for that she is a jockey. This portrait photograph is very well presented and shows a face of a tired jump jockey. The photographer is Spencer Murphy and the model is Katie Walsh, a famous and respected female jump jockey from England. The lighting is flat and the colours are not so vivid what give a bit more realistic feeling to the portrait. First I seen this photograph on the cover of BJP magazine a couple of months back. Later I did a little research on the photographer and the model and this is what I found.
Bibliography: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2013/04/03/175605582/you-cant-put-a-headline-on-william-klein
The photograph is from Robert Frank's The Americans book, which has been published in 1958. The book is about the post-war American life, how the photographer who was born in Switzerland seen it. He saw a different country than other people saw, he hasn't born in the country so he had the independent view on Americans. Interested about the tension in the gloss of American culture and wealth over race and class differences which gave a clear contrast to the other contemporary photojournalists.
On this image we can see bus or a tram, with open windows and through each window one person looking out. The composition is very interesting because the windows kind of split the image into individual parts, like portraits of each person. When I look on this photograph I think it is a very well composed image and also a good portraiture of the Americans in that time. Because the people look into the camera and not into the direction where the bus goes, makes the image more like a portrait than a street photograph.
Bibliography: Robert Frank (1958). The Americans. France: Robert Delpire, Grove Press, Steidl. 180.
The last photograph I will have a look at today is from my internet research and it is a portrait photograph which has been seen as a part of the Taylor Wessel portrait prize exhibition.
First what I see on the photograph is a portrait of a tired looking young woman. Then I looked into the photograph bit more and I discovered the mud patches and the dirt on her clothes and on her face. Her clothing refers for that she is a jockey. This portrait photograph is very well presented and shows a face of a tired jump jockey. The photographer is Spencer Murphy and the model is Katie Walsh, a famous and respected female jump jockey from England. The lighting is flat and the colours are not so vivid what give a bit more realistic feeling to the portrait. First I seen this photograph on the cover of BJP magazine a couple of months back. Later I did a little research on the photographer and the model and this is what I found.
Spencer Murphy for Katie Walsh
Spencer Murphy grew up in Kent and studied at the Kent Institute of Art and Design before gaining a BA in Photography at Falmouth College of Arts.
Taken at Kempton Park Racecourse his portrait of Katie Walsh was taken whilst shooting a series of jump jockeys' portraits for Channel Four's The Original Extreme Sport campaign. He says: 'I set up at the side of the racecourse and pulled in the jockeys as they finished their races. I was keen to include Katie, I wanted to show both her femininity and the toughness of spirit she requires to compete against the best riders in one of the most demanding disciplines in horse racing. I chose to shoot the series on large format film, to give the images a depth and timelessness that I think would have been hard to achieve on a digital camera'.
Shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards in both 2010 and 2011, Murphy's work will now have been exhibited as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize seven times, and last year his portrait of actor Mark Rylance won him Third Prize.
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