a point of no return

February 3, 2010

Diane Arbus

Filed under: Photography — Tags: — charly @ 12:57 am

The American photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) took striking pictures of people living in the margins of society.  It is almost impossible not to be moved in many different ways by some of her photographs; her subjects may  be freaks, but they also look at us intently, unashamed of their strange condition.  

Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, New York City (1962) – Image taken from Wikipedia

This is the first part of a documentary on her:

 

October 6, 2008

Photographers

Filed under: Photography — Tags: , , — charly @ 8:40 pm
Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville

Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville

Two “classic” photographers with a very distinctive view of life are the French photographer Robert Doisneau (1912 – 1994) and the Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado (1944-).

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