Mystery of the Street

Umbo (Otto Umbehr) German

1928

First Impressions:

This photograph was intriguing because of the angle in which is was shot, clearly upside down, but then you see the shadows of the people cast behind them, almost larger than life, and then there is the sullen man off to the left hand corner, it makes you wonder what these people were doing, what relations they had to each other, and what the artist was doing to capture this moment.

What I've Learned:

This artist was trying to show an eerie world, where what is real and what is fiction meshes into each other and can not be seen with the blind eye, he is trying to make you confused and have to think about the meaning.