Arnold Newman

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Arnold Newman | Portrait of Alfred Krupp | 1963
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Context : Arnold Newman  was born on March 3 , 1918 in New York City. He was a photographer known for his portraits of artists such as Pablo Picasso. He moved to Philadelphia to work as a photographer.

Visual : We can see a old man in the center (Alfred Krupp) He looks powerful. The image is in colour. The background is  symmetrical and is getting smaller as it goes.

Technical : The lights are coming from the top and the sides  focused on Alfred Krupp , the liht next Krupp is darker than the background.

Conceptual :  The photographer Arnold Newman was a Jewish man and Alfred Krupp was an industrialist who ran war factories manufacturing arms for the Nazi . Newman did not want to take the picture of Krupp but after a while he decided to do it. The portrait of Krupp was a revenge from Newman

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