Artist Of The Week: Robert Frank

This photo by Robert Frank utilizes a focus on the woman near the front, it captures her mildly downtrodden expression and illustrates a scene with many people busy working on different things. I like this photo because these people seem to specialists or scientists of some kind, they are all wearing white coats and it reminds me of modern day images used to promote different fields.

I like this photo because of the style and old theme represented with the time period, not only are the buildings old, the street old, and the picture black and white, all the people walking are older, which leads me to wonder what they were doing there. They all have a clothing style that is very classic and retro and the whiteness/brightness of the sky adds a nice contrast.

Weekly Vocabulary/ Photography Lenses

Fisheye - wide lens angle giving a 180 degree view, scale near edges reduced
Macro - short for macro lens, used for focusing in on close objects.
Telephoto - lens with larger focal length than normal ones, narrow field of vision and magnified image