Monday 20 August 2007

Feeding the Ducks (1924) by André Kertész

feeding the ducks
Andre Kertesz
Feeding the Ducks in the Late Afternoon
Tisza Szalka
1924

© The Estate of André Kertész

Scan courtesy of
Masters of Photography

Why doesn't anyone want to be photographed here? The ducks have turned their backs, the woman sitting has a reluctant smile on her face, and there's a younger woman on the right in the photo, completely enveloped in the shadow of the housewall and the tree. What secret is there in the lives of these people which casts strange shadows and makes the woman's hands, disengaged with a bowl, look sinister?

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