pretzel love

School night blip...ICP is near Times Square so I like to wander around after class....lots of light and action! A few more pics

This week’s class focus is on the sense of wonder - defined as a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable.

John Szarkowski describes wonder in “Looking at Photographs” as:
“A sense of the sweetness of life, a free and childlike pleasure in the beauty of
the world and the preciousness of sight.”

This week’s assignment - to look at the world as if “through the eyes of a child”

Inspiration: Presumed Innocence

Other inspirations:
Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
Martin Scorsese’s Hugo
Tree of Life

And a look at photographers whose work embodies this sense of wonder:
Alfred Stieglitz
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Clarence White, Miss Grace
*HELEN LEVITT
Weegee Arthur Felig
Robert Doisneau
Bruce Davidson
Diane Arbus
*SALLY MANN
Angela Strassehim
*ALFRED EIGENSTADT Children at a puppet show
Manel Alvarez Bravo
Reneke Dijikstra
Debbie Fleming Caffery
Katherine Turczan
*JOCK STURGES Last Day of Summer
Rachel Mozman American Girl with Dog
Mark Cohen
Ingar Krauss
Larry Fink
Martin Elkart