About the Photos

Decisive Moment Single Photography: 

Alan Kritzler has an eye for the surreal and ironic in everyday life.  Although some photographs appear to be made of multiple images "photoshopped" together, all photographs are single shot candid images taken on city streets.   These "decisive moment" shots are made in the spirit of the great French photographer Cartier Bresson. None are set up, staged or posed. Some shots that appear to have multiple images are really single shots taken of items in store windows where the reflections of the glass are also opportunities for maximum irony or symbolism.  Mr. Kritzler also uses juxtaposition with advertising posters and real people to catch personal meaning and societal mythology.  New York is full of ordinary and not so ordinary people living in a complex society, an environment filled with strange consumerist cultural myths presented in huge advertisements almost everywhere.   Alan seeks to create humanistic but ironic images with insight, wit and compassion.    

Although he never adds or subtracts anything from these single shot images, Mr. Kritzler sometimes takes advantage of modern software's ability to  adjusts color to maximize aesthetic and emotional impact.  He feels we are living in very surreal times sometimes verging on crisis or chaos.  We live trapped in a media environment which sometimes hides and sometime exposes these crises.