Arnold Newman was an american photographer that was born in 1918 and that died in 2006. Newman is often credited with being one of the first to experiment with environmental portraiture, in which the subject is put into a controlled setting to carefully show their life and their work. Newman was also a photography teacher.

Newman took this image in 1963. It is an image of Alfred Krupp. The image makes Alfred look menacing and intimidating. This is done due a few different things. Firstly, it is done through the pose and how Alfred is sitting. By having Alfred leaning forward slightly with his fingers interlocked and below his chin makes him seem very evil and as though he has power over you. Furthermore, contrast is used between the background and the foreground with a lot brighter colours in the background than the foreground. The fact that the darker part is in the foreground with Alfred makes the person viewing the image notice that he isn’t a very normal person, along with being quite ominous.

This portrait seems to have heavily used natural lighting. It seems to have used this kind of lighting to light up the background of the image. This is used to help create the contrast between the foreground and the background. From the light in the background you can tell that Newman wouldn’t have really been able to use a very low shutter speed as the background, especially at the top of the image would appear a lot brighter than it does. Other than using natural light, Newman likely would have used some sort of lamps to shine onto the sides of Alfred’s body. The use of these lamp would distinguish the outline of his suit instead of his body appearing a lot darker in colour. In this image, the colours in the foreground appear as though they have been altered to add even more contrast between the foreground and background, while the colours behind Alfred, in the background seem to be a lot less vibrant and instead are more bland and lighter. This may have been done to highlight the evil personality that Newman sees in Alfred.

This image shows a few different visual techniques. Firstly, Newman shows use of different tones throughout the image. This can be seen especially well in the foreground as the tone of the colours are a lot darker at the bottom rather than at the top. By using tone Newman has been able to show highlight a lot of detail in the texture of the metals in the foreground. Secondly, Newman has placed Alfred in an angle where repeating patterns are shown behind him, this can be seen with the natural light coming from the windows in the roof in the background and the natural light coming from the windows in the back wall. Thirdly, Newman has placed Alfred in front of a window. This window turns what could just be a flat surface, creates form in the image with a large 3D open space in the background.

Contextually, this image taken in 1963, created by Arnold Newman shows Alfred Krupp in front of a factory that he owned. When Alfred found out that Newman was Jewish he did not want him to take his portrait as he was a Nazi during the war. Though he did no longer want Arnold to take his picture, he eventually changed his mind and let him do it. The factory Alfred owned shown in the image behind him used slave labour from concentration camps to manufacture… . Due to these things that Newman found out about Alfred, he decided to try and take a portrait image of him acting evil, which is why he had him leaning forward with is fingers interlocked below his chin with a dark area around him in the foreground. Alfred was not happy with how Newman displayed him, though Newman was very happy and thought of it as him getting a small amount of revenge for the Jews.