Favorite Photographs

This will be a recurring theme. I'd like share my favorite photographs, either my own, or from other influences and why I like them. Forgive my attempts at 'artspeak.'

Erich Hartmann (1922-1999)
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Girl in bus and figures in street during snowstorm (1967) Copyright Erich Hartmann/Magnum Photos

I love the ambiance created of the comfort of the warm bus contrasting with the cold of the street outside. I also love the contrast and contradiction to our normal association with dark and light representing evil and good, respectively. In this case, the dark interior of the bus is the place of comfort, while the stark white exterior is the place of suffering.

The other contrast I love is the feeling of solitude from the girl, despite being jammed in with the other commuters. Meanwhile the crowd outside is anything but wrapped in solitude, struggling with fellow citizens battling a common enemy outside.