“Puddle Jumper” taken in 1925 by Friedrich Seidenstucker (1882-1966), a German photographer known for his snapshot-like pictures of people on the street in Berlin.
I like the unknown feeling of this photo. Is just life captured by a simple click...and besides this is in Berlin.
It feels like the quiet before the storm. In 14 years from this captured moment WWII will start.
Photo courtesy of MoMA.
#history #berlinstreets #vintagephotos #wrappmysensations
This reminds me of Gare St. Lazare by Henri Cartier-Bresson, taken later than this, but still captures 'the moment' in a similar way: https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/derriere-la-gare-saint-lazare/
ReplyDeleteWhat a feeling of grey life in that photo, Sam Collett
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing Miss Corina....:-)....
ReplyDeleteShots like this emphasize the instantaneous character of photographs. They create silly questions in my mind about a moment in the continuum long past. Did she know she was being photographed? Did she make it or did she get a wet foot? Was there a big splash? Was anyone watching her and the photgrapher? All other perspectives on the captured moment are likely dead or forgotten and this one has been arbitrarily immortalized. Which is grand in a delicate way, but also leaves me with a slightly conflicted feeling. The moments caught aren't entirely lost, but they're the merest impression of the full experience. And so I have a sense like being a man left with only a lock of hair of someone loved.
ReplyDeleteOkay, a little melodramatic, but nevertheless true. :)
Looks very Cartier Bresson
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