American Girl In Italy
摄影师是Ruth Orkin,时间是1951年,地点是意大利佛罗伦萨。
每一张照片的背后,都有一个甚至多个故事。
摆拍还是抓拍,一直是一个困扰人物摄影(包括很多著名的纪实新闻摄影作品)的问题。这副作品也不例外。
下面是Ruth Orkin's contact sheets from Aug. 22, 1951,你可以看出这个场景她一共只拍两张,但第二张,也就是成为名作的那张,显然里面的American Girl是退回去重走一遍的。
那个American Girl叫Ninalee Craig,当年23岁。
“The big debate about the picture, which everyone always wants to know, is: Was it staged? NO!” Craig said. “No, no, no! You don’t have 15 men in a picture and take just two shots. The men were just there ... The only thing that happened was that Ruth Orkin was wise enough to ask me to turn around and go back and repeat [the walk].”
Orkin died in 1985. Her daughter, Mary Engel, added one more contextual detail. “She told the man on motorcycle to tell the other men not to look at the camera.”
Ruth Orkin和Ninalee Craig那天是有意结伴出去拍照的。这副摄影作品,显然不能说是纯粹意义上的抓拍,但who cares?!只要不是纪实新闻图片,效果真实自然就好!!!
没时间罗嗦了,就这些吧。