Image Interpretations 2 (Diane Arbus)

In lesson we looked at several different photo's by artists Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, David Seymour and Louis Faurer. We then annotated them with what techniques we saw, such as symmetry, leading lines and rule of thirds, but we also discussed what the story could be within the image or about the people in it. In some of these images, people were looking in the lens of the camera as they were taken so suddenly. We then had to go around college and again take pictures of people, but try and include and story within the image. 

 The straight lines on the carpet and railing leads us into the woman cleaning the glass.She isn't looking into the camera lens as she is watching what she is doing. However, we can see that she has quite a miserable facial expression. Maybe she is sick of cleaning the same places around college each day. Maybe she's stuck with this job because there are no other jobs out there for her. 

 For this image, we can see a young man looking into the camera, this is because he suddenly looked up just as i was taking the image. Although he's looking into the camera, the image is still effective as he isn't pulling a face or posing. The image is also slightly blurred, this is because I took the picture so quickly that the camera didn't really focus.








                                                       This image again shows people about their everyday business. I was lucky to spot these two looking over the balcony so I quickly took a picture of them before they moved. The story behind the image is what are they looking at? I also positioned them in the centre third of the image because our eyes naturally look to the centre of an image if there isn't anything to lead us anywhere.