Taken aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II, this photograph was first shown in a 1911 issue of Camera Work.
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