Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Analysis

Allie Mae Burrough, Wife of a sharecropper From Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: represents struggle, hardship, and poverty during the Great Depression in the United States. It shows a face of a woman who is living in poverty during hard times in rural Alabama. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Climbing the Mast shows, show how the artist took a photograph at an oblique angle to make it looks like a birds-eye view. It broke records and showed the world a new style of photography. Both of the photographs bring out the truth in art. It shows the beauty of photography.

From Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the photograph was taken in 1936 in Hale County Alabama. She is the wife of Floyd Burroughs and they have four children. It was taken by Walker Evans in the Summer of 1936. This photograph represents a mother who is living in poverty and must live off her husband wages. Sometimes his wages may

The medium is gelatin silver print. It shows us a photograph of a person who is on a rope ladder and gives the viewers different angles to look at. It shows us the example of a birds-eye view. By looking at the photograph, the person looks as if he or she is squatting and that gives it the oblique angle. When you look at the person who is in the picture you are trying to figure out if it is a man or woman. That what makes the photograph a mystery. His use of lines is astonishing because you can see where the person is trying to climb up to the top of the pole. You also can see the person is looking down at you and that catches you by surprise. He created this photograph, so the viewers can look at the bottom and all the way to the top. He makes the viewers think when they look at this photograph because they don’t know where to start looking at. This photograph is mesmerizing and that is why it is revolutionary. He created a political statement by creating a new form of art that did break records in