Monday, 14 July 2014

More photographers producing narratives

As I am producing a narrative, I have tried to look at as many photographers that I could that have produced good narratives or any kind of sequences that include different photographs to tell one story. I have also researched a few that have taken single images that tell a whole story as well. I have included William Klein as one of them. I think the series of images that he has taken of 'gangs' in streets. I think they tell a lot about what was happening in the streets there and for me it was a good example of photographs that tell a narrative. I have obviously been inspired by them as well because they have also been taken outdoors like I am shooting. Following is a kind of resume that I have written about him and his work:

Klein was born in New York on April 19th, 1928, into a poor Jewish family. He also graduated from high school early and enrolled at the City College of New York at the age of 14 to study sociology. Klein then joined the US Army and was stationed in Germany and later France, where he would permanently settle after being discharged. In 1948, Klein enrolled at the Sorbonne.







This image taken by Klein is a very effective but nice image.
I like the way the pistol is out of focus (in the image below) and most of the focus is going on the two guys. One of them is not even looking into the camera. The other one looks quite aggressive. Specially his face expression. I like his framing a lot because you can tell he has thought about it before taking the shots. I do learn from looking at images like that because it helps me to think more about how to frame my images and how to improve them. 


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