Robert Capa - post by Angela

This photo is by Robert Capa, a photographer from Budapest. This is when he was covering the Tour de France in 1939. The shop behind them was a bike shop, and the kids were watching the bike shop owner come towards them in the race. Obviously this is a still photo, but you can imagine the tense nature of the kids and that they are all trying not to move, waiting in anticipation. There are two lines - one of older boys, and an older woman in the corner with a baby and also another woman in the same line. Then there is the line of the children. The photo creates a feeling of excitement and eagerness to me, and I like it because it looks real and is not a posed/set-up shot.