Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 17 Alfred Stieglitz Questions: |
Look Questions
1. Where are these people? What clues led you to your answer.
2. Describe the people in the upper part of the photograph. What are they wearing? What gender are most of them? Describe the people in the lower part. What are they wearing? What gender are most of them? Where do you see children?
3. What is in each corner of this photograph?
4. Upon seeing this scene, Stieglitz hurried to get his camera. He wanted to take the picture before the man in the round white hat, the man in the white crossed suspenders, and the seated woman with a child changed their positions. Find these people in the photograph. What does each figure contribute to the photograph?
5. What object in this photograph at once separates and joins the upper and lower portions of this image? What kind of line does the drawbridge form? The railing between the decks? Where else do you see diagonal lines in this picture? How do the diagonal lines contribute to the mood of this photograph?
6. Where in this photograph do you see forms repeated? Where do you see circles or cylinders? What forms in this photograph create a large triangle?
7. Was Stieglitz more concerned with individual personalities or with the group as a whole? How can you tell? How does the emphasis on the group rather than individuals contribute to the photograph's COMPOSITION?
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