Photography Appreciation
My dad gave me his Minolta SLR camera when I was in my teens. I took it everywhere, and documented my friends and families to the point of annoyance. Uninhibited and spontaneous reactions was always my focus, because these types of images captured the natural and memorable moments.
One distinguished photographer, Cornell Capa (Kornell Friedmann) coined the phrase, "the concerned photographer," a practice of producing "images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism."
The Hungarian-American photographer was known for capturing memorable images such as ballerinas at a ballet school in Moscow, detainees at a Nicaraguan prison, or a Robert Kennedy campaign speech. His photography shows emotions and stories. My favorite, though, is a photo of girls sitting on the couch barefoot. One is shown massaging her aching foot, perhaps after dancing for hours in heels.
You can see more of his wonderful photographs HERE.
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Cornell Capa - Bolshoi Ballet School
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| Nicaragua Prison (1956) via prisonphotography |
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Robert Kennedy campaigning in Elmira, New York,
September 1964 via prisonphotography
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Teenage girls resting feet at first formal dance
at the Naval Armory via jessie-clayton
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Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Capa
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1439737/Cornell-Capa
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZYFH
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/arts/design/23cnd-capa.html?_r=0
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Capa.html
http://anthonylukephotography.blogspot.com/2011/08/photographer-cornell-capa-reflects-on.html
http://blog.everlasting-star.net/2010/12/movies/misfits-in-santa-monica/
https://pleasurephoto.wordpress.com/category/cornell-capa/
http://jessie-clayton.blogspot.com/2011/10/alex-webb-antoine-dagata-cornell-capa.html
https://samuraipaolo.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/life-i-grandi-fotografi/cornell-capa-bolshoj-1958/
http://prisonphotography.org/2009/07/03/cornell-capa-concerned-about-prisons/
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