'Picture at an Exhibition'

This woman stops by to examine one photo of hundreds or even

thousands at a recent giant exhibition of photos at a trade fair known

as Photo L.A., held, of course, in Los Angeles, California. Your

ratings, critiques and observations are invited and most welcome. If

you rate harshly, very critically, or wish to make a remark, please

submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! john

As unlikely as it may seem to the casual eye, this photo is bustling with geometrical devices, (as Henri Cartier-Bresson used the term), or perhaps better, 'compositional devices'.

In any case, a careful examination of this photo yields at least and maybe more devices that a photographer may employ to catch a viewer's eye and 'satisfy' a viewer, even though the subject may seem fairly mundane and straightforward.

I'll not comment on them until others have had a chance.

john

John (Crosley)

The comment above should refer to 'at least three' compositional devices.

The number of such devices was inadvertently dropped during editing.

Apologies.

john

John (Crosley)

Angles, angles, everywhere!

Yes, angles.

There are more formal elements associated with those angles.

How about 'groupings'?

I count two of 'threes', front to back.

Can you see them?

Also, what about her body position?

Thanks for weighing in.

john

John (Crosley)

The caption or title has been changed from 'The Giant Photo Exhibition' to

'Picture at an Exhibition' which I would have posted in the first place if I had been quicker thinking.

The second caption/title honors Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky, Russian romantic composer of a piano work called 'Pictures at an Exhibition' which was later orchestrated famously by Ravel.

I like this caption much better.

john

John (Crosley)

The central focus of this photo about photos at an exhibition is the woman in black looking at the large, but low photo, so she crouches.

Note, however, not only is she (and the photo) framed by photos, but she is framed by forearms and hands from near to far -- three of them in fact, which I had referred to above as 'body groupings' as I recall.

So the main focus and theme is 'looking at a picture' while the subtheme is the framing, which is part from the framed photos surrounding and especially from the swinging forearms and hands attached thereto, from foreground (right) to far background.

Often such little touches go unnoticed except by skilled photo interpreters -- some of the gifted regular contributors here often notice such things, so I thought I would wait and see if anyone commented before writing about that myself.

john

John (Crosley)