Making Pictures of Pictures

This is the way it was last Saturday at MOMA in NYC, one of my favorite museums. There was an extensive collection of Bill Brandt's photography, portraits, wide angle nudes, and images from World War II taken during the bombing of London. I've always admired his work, particularly the distorted nudes. All the iconic ones were there, and many photographs I had never seen before.

Large paintings make a great place to do some street shooting. The crowd wasn't too bad, and the collections at MOMA were fabulous, as usual.  Besides enjoying the art myself, I like to take pictures of people doing the same. I crank the ISO up to 1600, Aperture preferred at f/8, and wait for an interesting gesture of posture and use the art as the background. Heres a few, and if you click on the thumb it will get bigger...

 

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