Week 14

WeeGee

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/11/weegee-mass-hysteria-1998.html

This image stood out to me because it made me ask many questions. Why are these kids here? Where is "here"? How did he get the vantage point he has? Did he use a flash? Either way this is a very interesting photograph. WeeGee shows a great sense of depth by having the object in the foreground blurry and very close to the camera while the children are laying on the floor several feet below. There is a lot of action going on in this photograph which is hard to accomplish without the use of movement. The boy on the left is looking across to what I would assume is another child while the kids are laying on the floor half asleep and very crammed.

Horoshi Sugimoto

http://www.pdnphotooftheday.com/2009/09/2060

Hiroshi Sugimoto is part genius. Yes genius. I say this because this photograph is a mixture of things, very amazing feat's in the form of photography. Atleast I think so. He has here what seems to be an animal skin appearing as both the sky and the ground of this photograph. While doing so he has electrical charges sprouting much like a tree without leaves on a winter day. The background is also very dark but seems to portray a great sense of depth within the photograph. The trees are emphasized due to the large contrast between pure white and almost pure black.

Bruce Davidson

http://standardmint.com/?p=1144

What caught my eye with this photograph was the juxtaposition of the children playing in this body of water. They are all hanging from branches almost all the way out of the water. This is not something I as a viewer would recognize as children playing in a body of water just because I would start to assume the children would be in the water or splashing around. This photograph seems more posed or as if they were scared to go in the water. Their dark bodys and loss of information of the body seems to further the notion of fear almost in this photograph. Contrasting the common idea of children playing in a body of water for fun on a hot summer day.