Paul Strand Post Assignment

I enjoyed this assignment when I figured out how to do it. I'm not going to lie, when I was told to "take photos like Paul Strand" I had no clue what to do. I started to see geometry in light and shadow and noticed how cool it could look with contrast. You can't really just go out and take a photo of something meaningful with that though, so I took photos that could be interpreted many ways. The stair photo for example, one could say it represents stepping from the light to the darkness and corrupting yourself to gain an advantage in life and move up in the world. That's just one idea but art is really about what the viewer sees or hears, I'm also too lazy to think of some other explanation. Contrast can mean millions of things and that's been shown in millennia of art and music. Light and Darkness, Good and Evil. That's the major theme of humanity's story telling. Paul Strand understand this very well with his photos and I tried to incorporate that within my photos as well.