Munskasci and Doisneau

[afalifice]

Hey @ all,

thanks again, I received good notes for my work about the picture of Cartier-Bresson. Now I have to learn for an oral exam and I will certainly have one of those two pictures below.

For the one from Munkasci I have already found some informations like: "The picture possessed many of qualities —economy of means, classical composition, geometry—but it also had a quality of spontaneity, "a sense of life" that he had thrilled to as an habitué of the cafes he attended with Surrealists like André Breton and Max Ernst. In the image, the traditional and the modern met." But that are not enough details to receive the exam. Do you have some ideas?

The one of Doisneau is very beautiful and a decisif moment, but I don´t know what else to say about it.

I just hope, that you can help me!

Thanks

Alice

[stunsworth]

Hi Alice, they're both very beautiful photographs. But there comes a point when you're doing exams that you have to be able to think for yourself. This is never more important than in an oral exam or an interview. The question shouldn't be what do we think of these photographs, rather it should be what do _you_ think of them. When you can articulate your feelings you'll be ready for the oral exam, but not before.

[TimF]

thanks again, I received good notes for my work about the picture of Cartier-Bresson.

Can we take it the cheques are in the post?

FWIW, the Doisneau, although a wonderful image as you say was actually posed. See the story here (the page is translated from french, so the english is slightly comical in places). But does that matter? I think not.

[k_g_wolf]

This MUNKASCI photograph is one of the icons of photography !

It was taken in (about) 1930 at the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Eastern Africa.

HCB had seen it when he was a young man and this very photograph electrified him so much, that he decided to become a photographer.

Unfortunately - for LEICA-photography at least - MUNKASCI never used a LEICA, he stuck to his big Voigtländer-cameras (and others) and travelled around the world on assignments together with more than 50 kg of camera gear. No assistant to support him. But he used the larger format in such a brilliant way, that he came up with photographed movements no other photographer had achieved before him.


Best

[Bernd Banken]

The Kiss or "Le Baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville" is the most famous pic of D. But it was posed and well composed. Shot 1950 it's the visualization of the hunger for life after the war.
There are some few links for other photographs of D. He has a special "humor" in his visual language I feel. Like his pics very much!

http://www.usefilm.com/CritiqueImage...8-original.jpg

http://images.google.de/images?q=Coc...num=10& hl=de

http://www.angeltowns2.net/litterae/...eau_glance.jpg

http://www.alewand.de/inter/bilder/doisneau_picasso.jpg

Cheers
Bernd