ONE OF THE GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS of ALL TIME!
New York World's Fair, 1964 - Gary Winogrand
I am not entirely sure why but this photograph by master photographer Gary Winogrand is one of the greatest modern compositions ever taken. I think it is a part of the 'decisive moment' school as first mooted by Henri Cartier-Bresson that here is the most perfect composition I have ever seen and it has stayed on in the memory for years ever since I first saw it. Compositionally it is near perfect, the body language revealed and the gestures of the figures sat outdoors on the bench are so beguiling to the eye they allow for a near perfect travel across the picture that it is possible to achieve.
Vanity Fair magazine out it this way:
New York World’s Fair, 1964. This is one of Winogrand’s most iconic images. There’s a heroic classicism to the way he shot these women, as if they were muses or minor deities—the Goddesses of Gossip, Exhaustion, Flirtation, and so on. Or maybe this is Da Vinci’s last supper, reenacted by teenagers in Flushing Meadows
More here in the magazine:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/06/garry-winogrand-met-museum_slideshow_item1_2