Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika is a photograph taken by Martin Munkácsi

Martin Munkácsi

Martin Munkácsi Kolozsvar, Austro-Hungary, May 18, 1896, died July 13, 1963, New York, NY) was a Hungarian photographer who worked in Germany and the United States.- Life and Works :...

 in 1929 or 1930.

While Munkácsi is known for his fashion photography

Fashion photography

Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Elle...

, he established his reputation with his news photography that was mostly published in German weeklies. This photograph inspired Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography...

, the father of modern photojournalism, who said about it, "I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment."

It shows three naked young African boys, caught in near-silhouette, running into the surf of Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake...

. It captured the freedom, grace and spontaneity of their movement and their joy at being alive.

External links

• Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika