An empty (*) walkway with chain railings cuts across the middle of this photograph, contrasting with the crowded upper half.
Beaumont Newhall suggests that this photograph was taken at Plymouth, England because the shadows seem to indicate a westward motion. The photographer later wrote that the scene fascinated him because of the way "shapes related to one anotherÂ—a picture of shapes, and underlying it, a new vision that held" him. A pillar on the left, stairs on the right, and a horizontal bar on the upper edge make up a triangle in this photograph, which was hailed as a proto-Cubist work and a break from pictorialism. Most of the women in this work wear headscarves, while the men wear hats. An empty (*) walkway with chain railings cuts across the middle of this photograph, contrasting with the crowded upper half. Taken aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II, this photograph was first shown in a 1911 issue of Camera Work. For 10 points, name this early modernist photograph depicting two decks of the lower-class section on a steamer traveling to Germany, taken by Alfred Stieglitz.
Beaumont Newhall suggests that this photograph was taken at Plymouth, England because the shadows seem to indicate a westward motion.
The Steerage