Bryan Espinal
Richard Avedon "Ballet Dancers"
May 5, 1948
I selected this image because when I saw it the motion of the ballet dancers caught my attention. The blur of the back two dancers makes the ballet dancer in the middle stand out because she is sharp in focus. Making the image black and white makes it catch the attention of the viewer more than it probably would in color. What I like about Richard Avedon is that he categorizes his image by what the subject is doing. The image "Ballet Dancers" is of course in the Dance category of all his images. But what I found interesting in the Dance category of Richard Avedon was that he put a portrait of choreographer's face with out doing any dance moves or motion, instead of putting him in the portraits category Avedon puts him in the Dance category. I want to learn to take pictures in motion as good as Richard Avedon and that is why I picked this image.
