Yesterday I was knocked out by a nocturnal photo of the Brooklyn Bridge, which had been posted on Facebook by Reid Rosefelt. It has a fantasy-world quality…pinpoints of golden amber enshrouded by fog clouds, like an image of nighttime London out of Disney’s Péter Pan (‘53).
“It doesn’t seem real”, I thought, “but congrats to Reid all the same.”
Reid later clarified that the photo has been snapped by event photographer Jane Kratochvil, who lives in Reid’s building but has a better view of the bridge.
Kratochvil’s photos, which capture corporate events and shows and big celebrations, are all postcard pretty — bursting with color, perfectly balanced, full of joy and spirit, etc. Which is what her clients want.
Look at her professional website and you immediately think of that lyric from Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”…”gives you the nice bright colors, gives you the greens of summer…makes you think all the world’s a sunny day.”
Alas, Jane’s magnificently foggy Brooklyn Bridge-at-night snap is apparently an anomaly — I found no other images on her website that seem to even aspire to its moody complexity, much less vaguely resemble it.
