Kurt Hutton
SOUTHEND, ENGLAND, 1938 — Two young women enjoying themselves at a fair.
I love this photograph.
The composition is excellent.
It is a still image yet I get such a strong sense of motion from the composition the first time I looked at it I thought everyone was being thrown off the ride.
The clipped curve of the ride gives a strong feeling of spin, and the motion that it conveys is furthered by her forward projection as she is coming off the ride, as well as all of their hair being blown by the wind in the same direction as the motion.
They are all so happy, after the ride.
She is so elegant and sexy, the garther, the ensemble she is wearing, I love it.
Kurt Hutton has a really nice body of work, I had never seen it before this photo, but tis pretty bionic.
At the National Portrait Gallery
