I chose this picture
in white and black taken for Henri Cartier Bresson in 1932, Its name
is “Behind the Gare Saint- Lazare”. As the title say, this
photograph was taken in the train station at Paris, It shows a flooded
station, more than half of picture is water, in the horizon you can
recognize the building structure, maybe the station. Also there are
other elements as stones, cartles in a wall, gate, a ladder and
debris. There are two people, one is looking through the gate at the
bottom, and the other – the main character- is jumping from the ladder to the
water. It is just at this moment, in the jump, when the photo is
taken, the person seem to fly in time, and this is reflected in the
water. This photographer is well known for take his picture in the
precise moment. I chose it because I like the instant capture, I
think is a metaphore about the time because in life this kind of
actions passes quickly and they are insignificant; but in this
context, it suggesting poetic things.
