Chapter 5: The City in Photography

Being brought up in a time where cities were also becomming popular, photography has a lot in common with the city. Like landscape photography, a photograph taken in a certain spot will look different through the lens of a photographer taking the same picture 20 years later. Panoramic photos are photos taking in sequence and put together to make a large, wide photograph. There are panoramic photos taken of the largest cities, London, New York and Paris from the 1790s because that is where the life was. The picture Steiglitz took of the flatiron building was a very neat one. The lines and everything work really well. This is an example of photographers taking pictures of America growing up. They saw the beauty in new things and the shiny snow that Steiglitz saw on this foggy morning reminded him of that. Some photographers took pictures of buildings and monuments, others stuck with the people of the city and the city life, and others took photographs of the events that took place in the large cities. I think that the photograph taking by Weegee, Murder in Hell's Kitchen is interesting because there is a bird in the front of the photograph. Kind of representing that maybe somebody saw the murder. Why didn't Weegee run away, why is he taking pictures?