Art Analysis: The Lombard Street
The image I choose to talk about, it is a picture of the famous crooked street in San Francisco, The Lombard Street. I had a chance to visit and look at the structure of the street in person, and I was amazed by how it look. The street is located in the resident area, and it has nine turning points. The hill is natural 27% grade, the road is one side driveway, and the stairs on the side are for people to walk. The surrounding of the road are carefully decorated and maintained, the flowers, trees and the look of the house present the most beautiful side of the road. In my opinion, the street design is beautiful, unique and special; I can see the aesthetics in the surroundings. However, the history of the road reveals that the road functions
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The image presents a black and white style, and I believe that was the best equality photographic technology back in 1922. On each side of the picture, there are residential buildings or houses along the streets, but the left side of the image still has a lot of space. The street looks like is already in progress but not quite done yet because of there still is a lot of construction materials such as woods on the street. In the center of the picture, two men are chatting. It could be they are discussing the progress of the work, or the man with the hand rise are complaining about how the road affected the resident houses. In the picture, I sort of think that the houses or apartment were not in good selling position back in the day because of the slope of the hills makes difficult for cars going through. In fact, this is the truth according to a landowner of the area who claimed that the houses had lower property value due to the poor accessible condition of cars. It was the landowner came up the idea of the winding street plan. They made an arrangement of the residents who live in the area will pay for the maintenance, and it covers the fees of decorations and landscaping. That makes sense to me that the street right now is beautifully decorated, and well managed. It was not designed to be a place of interest in the fist place, but I guess the uniqueness and dedication attract people's attention to appreciated and view it as an
The image presents a black and white style, and I believe that was the best equality photographic technology back in 1922. On each side of the picture, there are residential buildings or houses along the streets, but the left side of the image still has a lot of space. The street looks like is already in progress but not quite done yet because of there still is a lot of construction materials such as woods on the street. In the center of the picture, two men are chatting. It could be they are discussing the progress of the work, or the man with the hand rise are complaining about how the road affected the resident houses. In the picture, I sort of think that the houses or apartment were not in good selling position back in the day because of the slope of the hills makes difficult for cars going through. In fact, this is the truth according to a landowner of the area who claimed that the houses had lower property value due to the poor accessible condition of cars. It was the landowner came up the idea of the winding street plan. They made an arrangement of the residents who live in the area will pay for the maintenance, and it covers the fees of decorations and landscaping. That makes sense to me that the street right now is beautifully decorated, and well managed. It was not designed to be a place of interest in the fist place, but I guess the uniqueness and dedication attract people's attention to appreciated and view it as an