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Photographer:
Presented By : Nimrah Ahmed (07) Hamda Abdul Rauf (21)
BRASSAI
Introduction:o Romanian photographer, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker.
o Worked a lot as a journalist for a Hungarian newspaper before starting photography.
o He captured Paris because he fell in love with the city due to which he wandered late at night and captured its beauty.
o He was completely disinterested in photography, until he saw the work of Andre Kertesz, which inspired him. Andre Kertesz was a famous photographer who tried to capture the sweetness of life. He found it a source of pleasure to capture beauty of the world. His two pictures are:
Brassai’s Photograph
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o Third rule applied while framing.
o Principle of Design; repetition.
o Interesting shadows.
o Great sense of perspective.
o Exposure.
The Stairs
Comparison with previous picture
Passers-by in the raino Reflective surfaces
o Perspective, space
o Repetition
o Asymmetric composition
o Study of Shape, Lines & Texture
o Movement of Eye.
o Composition, rule of third.
Open Gutter
Foggy Paris
o Picture of a moving subject
o Spreading light defines composition
o Silhouettes
Chez Suzy
o Mirror technique.
o Composition.
There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective “knowing”; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe
one thing, the more complete will our “concept” of this thing, our “objectivity” be.
[All emphases in the original.]
Dali and Gala
o No “visual clutter”
o Reminiscent image
o Emphasis on space
Madame Bijouo Theme behind the
picture.
o Light and background.
o Facial expressions.
o Henry Miller labeled him “Eye of Paris”.
Big Albert's Gango Long sharp shadows.
o Darkened figures.
o Comparison of size.
Group in a Dance Hall
o Consciously framed objects by using his technique- juxtaposition.
o Contrast in expressions.
o Main object is in the mirror.
o Balanced composition.
The Language of the Wallo Symbolism
o Illusion in the -ve and +ve
o Documentation
Method of Capture Brassai used cigarettes to time long exposures, therefore
the cigarette is not a cigarette but a clock.
Brassaï was known to use a 6 x 9 cm Voigtlander Bergheil plate-back camera equipped with a 105-mm Heliar f/4.5 lens to record some of his iconic night scenes.
Glass based silver gelatin dry plate negatives for the series of Paris by night images.
6x9 cm Voigtlander Bergheil plate-back camera
“The thing that is magnificent about photography is that it can produce images that incite emotion
based on the subject matter alone.“ - Brassai