Pure and Straight Photography

 Bill Brandt, Epsom Races, 1933

This image show a man and woman both perched on one seat, sitting back to back. The man is holding a umbrella and the lady is reading a book. They are both dressed in formal clothing, for the woman is wearing an ankle length dress and sun hat and the man is wearing a full dark coloured suit and hat. The photograph has been taken from a low, floor angle which makes the grass look very high but then also exaggerated the hight of the man and woman within the image. The image is very sharp and contains a lot of detail. This image portrays the style of pure and straight photography as it has clearly not been manipulated, the image has been clearly set up, the angle of the camera has been thought about and the subject matter has been positioned perfectly before taking the image. Bill Brandt was a German-British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany. Bill Brandt then moved to England, where he became known for his high-contrast images of British society, his distorted nudes and landscapes. Around this time this time the great depression was at its best, within this image  there may be a link to this event in time, as even though the couple are dressed in formal clothes they both look slightly worried, as they both sit back to back not smiling or communicating with one another. The gentleman looking down to the floor which gives of the impression he's worried and the woman looking very closely at a book of some sort, connotes that she is possibly not interested in her surroundings or is being slightly ignorant or dismissive to the gentleman.