America Firsthand Critical Thinking Analysis
America Firsthand Critical Thinking pg. 101
#1. Alvin Langdon Coburn was at the forefront of photography as art. At the time photography was young and new much like the skyscrapers and machinery in the quickly expanding cities of the second industrial revolution. Coburn’s photography depicts a cold, hard, and filthy place with smoke and steam rising into the sky above all else. Coburn is trying to convey the price of advancement and progress in his newly mechanization world.
#2. Riis and Hine promoted reform by documenting the harsh truths of the high price of progress of the industrial area. In figure four – nine Riis and Hine stage the photographs to convey the dire straits of the situation within the cities and factories. The people within
the photos are cold and lifeless, this is an attempt to display that the rich are gaining there wealth for the price people’s lives. The two photographers attempt to appeal to your humanity with their photographs that call for reform, insisting that something needs to change to correct the current course that an industrialized America has taken. That American progression has thrown the poor aside.
#3. The three photographer likely shared a similar vision of the city and industry, that it was a bad deal for the poor who sought opportunity. Their photographs had a bruiting since of ambience portraying the city and industry as a cold, hard, and a filthy place. Figure seven of the small girl that is a factory worker would have the most impact today. The small girl looks tired and overworked. The child labor issue of that time is now viewed as a heinous act.
#1. Alvin Langdon Coburn was at the forefront of photography as art. At the time photography was young and new much like the skyscrapers and machinery in the quickly expanding cities of the second industrial revolution. Coburn’s photography depicts a cold, hard, and filthy place with smoke and steam rising into the sky above all else. Coburn is trying to convey the price of advancement and progress in his newly mechanization world.
#2. Riis and Hine promoted reform by documenting the harsh truths of the high price of progress of the industrial area. In figure four – nine Riis and Hine stage the photographs to convey the dire straits of the situation within the cities and factories. The people within
the photos are cold and lifeless, this is an attempt to display that the rich are gaining there wealth for the price people’s lives. The two photographers attempt to appeal to your humanity with their photographs that call for reform, insisting that something needs to change to correct the current course that an industrialized America has taken. That American progression has thrown the poor aside.
#3. The three photographer likely shared a similar vision of the city and industry, that it was a bad deal for the poor who sought opportunity. Their photographs had a bruiting since of ambience portraying the city and industry as a cold, hard, and a filthy place. Figure seven of the small girl that is a factory worker would have the most impact today. The small girl looks tired and overworked. The child labor issue of that time is now viewed as a heinous act.