Friday, September 24, 2010

Magnum Photographers

I chose Josef Koudelka, born in a Czechoslovakian province,  as my photographer from the Magnum website.
His Portfolio


And here are a couple of his images that I liked:




In this image, he's controlling the background and waiting for the right moment, when the dog aligns itself with the path.


Here again, he aligns his subject with the background and quite possibly this is a candid shot.



This picture was take at just the right moment; he must've waited quite a long time for the birds to take flight and frame them in an interesting way. I also like how it seems the birds will continue to fly through the picture; there seems to be some kind of interaction between all the birds.


I know this image was taken on a day of a carnival, maybe only for school children. This is definitely a candid shot, and a very interesting one at that, since something like this doesn't occur everyday. I also like the interaction between the older woman and the angel-boy; she seems to be looking at him in an unapproved way, which seems somewhat ironic, because he's dressed up as an angel. There is also a slight implied interaction between the horses and the child; they're both going in the same direction, which doesn't make it feel like the horses are disturbing the composition of this picture.

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