These I Like - A Weekly Gallery of Exceptional Photographs

[Vaughn]

Two Men Talking is very fine, but I find that business in the corner just a bit distracting. Its admirable, but not wonderful, but that is my humble opinion.

Whereas I find that corner to be very important and "makes" the piece. Just a hint of context and distance to make the image only stronger.

Interesting! And not saying either one or both of us are wrong...or right...

Vaughn

...and I love how that lower left corner completes the forms across the bottom of the frame.

[Ken Lee]

Marthe by Pierre Bonnard, French painter and print maker, 1900.

[Ken Lee]

Martin Schweig Studio, 1965

[Vaughn]

I enjoy the similarities and contrasts of the last two images...thanks!

Martha is clothed by the light and in the studio image the model has clothes of light.

[hmf]

I'm a little late to the party, but am transfixed by the DeCarava photograph. The gesture of the hand in the lower left corner, the proximity of the two men and the presence of a third person as an image in the spectacle lens makes me feel like I'm in on a conversation of great importance. And the printing is magnificent: the dark skin, white hats and shirts and the gleam of the metal glasses are perfection.

[NoBob]

I like what you're doing Ken.

That Ramiel, Edward Weston, is great. The combination of modelling light, pose and composition is so strong.

[Ken Lee]

Paris, 1991 by Jeanluop Sieff.

[Ken Lee]

Paul Strand in Mexico, 1933

[Ken Lee]

Cable Cars, San Francisco by Max Yavno, 1947

[Bill_1856]

Thank you for posting these. Some of them I already know, but some are strangers. You have a good eye.