Gueorgui Pinkhassov (Magnum photographer) photos. Using the background to enhance the image feeling.

Gueorgui Pinkhassov (Magnum photographer) photos. Using the background to enhance the image feeling.

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(C) Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Contact email:
New York : photography@magnumphotos.com
Paris : magnum@magnumphotos.fr
London : magnum@magnumphotos.co.uk
Tokyo : tokyo@magnumphotos.co.jp

Contact phones:
New York : +1 212 929 6000
Paris: + 33 1 53 42 50 00
London: + 44 20 7490 1771
Tokyo: + 81 3 3219 0771

The background (or foreground, in the case of reflections) can be used by the photographer as a tool to enhance or modify the mood of the entire image. Just giving it a relevancy in the capture (using color, light or the image composition) it can play a main role in the entire image.
In this samples, the photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov is playing with this idea in a very clever way. You can test how the "feeling" of the image is stronger using this reflections or background patterns.

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Uploaded on Sep 15, 2009

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Elliot Erwitt Selfportrait

Elliot Erwitt Selfportrait

(c) Elliot Erwitt

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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2009

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