My reading - This image shows workers heading to or from work. Some carry their tools. The Olga shadows show that it is either late or very early. The people are made tiny in their environment by the size of the rectangular recesses. This shows the degree to which humans are minimised in an environment where buildings and businesses rule.
Val Williams - Photography as a social educator. Image explores a society in flux confronting and embracing modernity. Black rectangles recesses impart a sense of foreboding.
5 years after its capture in 1920 the location of the picture was the site of a bombing by Italian anarchists prompting the question as to whether the forbidding feel of the image drove the bombers to choose it as a target.
The City - William Willard Dyke
San Paolo, Brazil Rene Burri
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