This photograph belongs to a period when Christoffersen adopted a clearer, more direct approach. Moving beyond the atmospheric aesthetic of pictorialism, he focused on composition, light, and form. The low camera angle places the viewer at the children’s eye level, reinforcing the physical and symbolic threshold they are crossing.

Technical Details: This is a technically precise image, composed with attention to rhythm and clarity. Christoffersen’s focus on everyday subjects, clean lines, and visual structure reflects a broader movement in photography during the 1930s. Within Norwegian camera clubs, there was growing interest in a more formal and objective approach. Central European photographers such as Albert Renger-Patzsch, László Moholy-Nagy, and Jaromír Funke helped shape this direction – one that prioritized clarity over atmosphere, and form over fiction.

Format: TIFF

Size: 152,2 mb

Resolution: 4776×3984

DPI: 300

Color Model: RGB

Color Sync: sRGB IEC61966-2.1

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