Here are two photographs featuring children from current shows: Children playing on Omaha beach, Normandy, France, 1947Photo: Chim (David Seymour, a/k/a Chim was a founder of Magnum Photos, along with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1947.) This photograph can be seen at International Center of Photography in NYC through 5 May, 2013. Nursery Rhymes […]
Author: Kritina Lee Knief
Just because … Henri Cartier-Bresson
I’m posting this just because to look at a Henri Cartier-Bresson image, is to feel good … Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
CONCEPTS
What I would call, “provocative”. Photo: Albert Watson What I would call, “kitsch”. Photo: David Lachapelle What I would call, “theatrical”. Photo: Adolph de Meyer What I would call, “playfully patriotic”. Photo: William Hundley What I would call, “chic”. Photo: Constantin Joffe What I would call, “a sense of place”. Photo: Robert Frank What I […]
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
I look at this photograph and have to ask myself, why? Why do I find that a random group of passersby with dull, lifeless expressions in a rather ordinary, mundane environment, a sidewalk, is somehow, strangely captivating if not compelling? I have no idea why! Philip-Lorca diCorcia does this and other equally disconcerting shots. […]
FM2
Last night I gave my son my first Nikon for his photography class. Ahh, to hold a film camera again. Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
Photographs from Kazakhstan / Sergei Ivanovich Borisov
I was looking up something on Kazakhstan and came across these beautiful photographs. The photographs were taken between 1911 and 1914, and they are the work of Sergei Ivanovich Borisov (1867-1931), a Russian photographer. More than 1000 of his images from his trek across the mountain areas of Altai were used as postcards for the […]
Andrew Eccles and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
I am thrilled to say that in exactly one month, I will be seeing the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform. Since it is currently on my mind, I am sharing some photographs of the dance company shot by Andrew Eccles. Interesting reads are this very brief bio on Eccles and this interview from 2010 […]
Election Day … VOTE!
Robert Frank gave us, “The Americans”, a book that was originally issued over 50 years ago. I thought this photograph from the book would be a fitting image for today. (Here is a link about the re-issued book and his background, here is an editorial piece from a blog I found, and here is an […]
WW II Kodachrome Photographs
My son sent me a link to Pavel Kosenko’s blog which showcases 4 x 5 Kodachrome photographs from World War II. I am posting some of the images by Alfred T. Palmer, several of which were shot for the Office of War Information. For me, these photographs feel like glamor shots – for some reason, […]
National Geographic
I’m not sure if this is a matter of the “decisive moment” or more a matter of scrambling to get a shot and actually getting it! Here is the caption Daniel Dolpire provided to National Geographic “Your Shot” when he submitted this photograph. “I took this “once-in-a-lifetime” shot at Klein’s Camp in the Serengeti, Tanzania. We […]
