Vik Muniz, The Steerage, after Stieglitz from Pictures of Chocolate, 2000
Mach 19, 2019
"A round straw hat, the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right, the white drawbridge with its railings made of circular chains, white suspenders crossing on the back of a man in the steerage below, round shapes of iron machinery, a mast cutting into the sky, making a triangular shape...I saw a picture of shapes and underlying that the feeling I had about life."
-Alfred Stieglitz, recalling what he saw when he made his classic picture The Steerage, 1907
