Henri Cartier-Bresson
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nara, Japan
1965
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| from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art |
The sheer simplicity of this image, water and foam, highlights how beauty can be found in the most mundane and unexpected places. The swirls formed on the water by the foam and possibly the breeze is just as much a piece of art as Van Gogh's "Starry Night", of which this reminds me.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dessau, Germany
April 1945
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| from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art |
This image tells such a powerful story. Hate seems to consume the woman on the right, who appears to be preparing to strike the woman on the left. The woman on the left wears her shame throughout, in her stance, on her face, and the ways she has clenched her thumb in her fist...
Meanwhile, most of the crowd seem to have accepted that the accused is guilty their expressions saying the procedure is taking too long.
But the visage that really leaps out at me is that of the woman near the top-right of the photo. Her gaze strikes me as one that might share the same shame as the accused woman and makes me wonder...