外研版（2019）英语选择性必修三《Unit 2 A life’s work》Life Behind the Lens P15优质课ppt课件

外研版（2019）英语选择性必修三《Unit 2 A life’s work》Life Behind the Lens P15优质课ppt课件

A white-haired old man riding an ordinary bicycle around the streets of New York, always wearing the same blue worker's jacket and simple black running shoes. If you saw him,

you'd never think there was anything remarkable about him. And yet every member of New York's wealthy high society

wanted nothing more than to pose for this

man.

This ordinary-looking man was Bill Cunningham, one of the most important American photographers of the last fifty years.

What made Cunningham

so great? It certainly

wasn't the use of

expensive,

technologically-

advanced equipment.

Cunningham always

used simple, relatively

cheap cameras and took

all his pictures on the streets of New York, not in a studio. Nor was it a wide range of contacts and connections. Although he always knew where fashionable parties and events

were happening, Cunningham liked to photograph ordinary people in the poor Bronx as much as VIPs in rich Manhattan.

He found inspiration where others could not, in simple, everyday scenes, such as a man buying oranges at the local grocery store, or a woman riding home on the graffiti-covered subway. These things were real, and it was

within their reality

that Cunningham

saw both beauty