Canon Art Museum - Nationl Geographics Portraits

I went to the National Geographic portraits exhibit yesterday. It was a very interesting exhibit. It had many pieces that have become iconic now. The thing that made the biggest impression on me was how the color photos were all from before Photoshop or digital photography, but the colors in the photos were so intense. It was amazing to me how the rich colors of the people and the backgrounds were all captured in real time and with lighting. The photo of the girl in Afghanistan was the most profound. The green and red complementary colors extenuate one another. The motion of the background, her shall, and her hair perfectly framed her face and made the green eyes piercing. Besides being aesthetically brilliant, I am not sure what the meaning of the photo was supposed to be. To capture some sort of emotion the subject was feeling, perhaps? She seems a little scared or apprehensive. She seems anxious, paniked. Like she is hiding perhaps or that she is about to get up and run away.At any rate, the exhibit was very interesting. The black and white that were 100 years old were like having an opportunity to back and time and look at another person from the past in the eyes. Each piece had its own individual, beauty, quality and point of interest that I could go on.