Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was a well known Hungarian painter and an outstanding photographer. He created the Light Prop or Electric Stage which advances the art of photography dramatically. This allowed more light to create shadows in photographs that added depth to photos. Moholy-Nagy moved to the U.S. later in his life and lived in Chicago where he ran the New Bauhaus.
I like Moholy-Nagy's photos because of all the light that is shown in them but I dislike the lack of activity going on in the photos. The only thing going on in this photo is the one ma hanging out of the window and he isn't even the main focus of the photo. The photo just seems odd to me and in a blank sort of way. I just don't like or understand it.
This photo I like because of the angle. It's taken as if he was laying and hanging over these people whose photo he captured. I like that you can see the shadows and that it doesn't give you that same dry feeling the picture before does. I also like the contrast of the three people wearing the bright white hats while the rest of this picture is very grey and dark.
Once again this photo gives me that dry odd feeling that I don't like. The entire scene is too weird, the man's leg over the edge almost as if he is dancing to his death. The photo just gives me a feeling I don't like and the light is too bright and perfect making the viewer think that there is something bad happening with something pretty trying to distract you from the bad thing. It's like it's tricking you, it's an illusion.
Andre Kertesz
Like Moholy-Nagy Kertesz is also a well know Hungarian photographer. He contributed greatly to photo composition and photo essay. Kertesz never felt that he got all the appreciation he should have for his photographs. He spent time in both Hungary and France where his most well known images were taken. In his free time he liked to photograph street people including gypsies and local beggars. Today Kertesz is receiving the recognition he so much deserved when he was alive.
Kertesz took this photo "Circus," in Budapest and it's one of my favorites. I like that the light is soft and doesn't strain your eyes anywhere you look. I also like that you can't see their faces, giving the illusion are they looking at the circus or are they the circus? As you've probably guessed I adore photos with double meanings or long background stories so you can see why this is one of my favorites. It has great symbolism ad is an over all great image.
This is one of Kertesz's most famous photographs but I am not sure how to feel about it. It's very simple, it's just a fork which in a way makes it abstract which is interesting, and the shadows are very good as well. Overall this is a great image but I can't sense any meaning behind it which makes me feel like the photo is lacking substance.
I like the shadows in this photo and how small the people look in this photo. This photo shows how much smaller human beings are and how we can make things so much bigger and stronger than we are. I like this picture because it's from a high up angle that you wouldn't see normally. I also like this photo because each one of those people probably don't know they are in a famous photograph, they have lives of their own they are worrying about all of those small dots have a different life and different thoughts. It's amazing that this can all be captured in a photo.
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