some of his work:

– Image Analysis.

1963

-Alfred Krupp is the man in the photo

Emotional-

• cold – lighting the building looks cold.
• intimidating- him staying at us almost thinking.
• harsh- white lighting
• I do like it, its intruiging.

Visual-

• dull
• train factory, looks broken down.
• man sat inside in the centre.
• daylight coming through glass sky pannels.
• looks like it goes far back
• looking up leaning on his hands angry looking.

Technical-

• natural lighting, coming through the roof.
• balanced compostion, by the 2 pillars either side holding him in.
• he is the point of focus and the further we go back the more detail we lose.
• organised and structered.
• light from above shine down with side lihgting which creates a gloomy effect.
• in a train station you would want good lighting
• triangular composition which is strong and harsh.
• makes us center and focus on i’m and his expression.
• similarity lighting to a church.
• lots of visual detail up close.

Conceptual-

• Jewish photographer Arnold Newman was commissioned by Newsweek to take a portrait of Alfred Krupp, a convicted Nazi war criminal. At first, Newman refused, but eventually, he decided to take the assignment as a form of personal revenge.
• Upon seeing the portrait, Krupp was furious. Nevertheless, the image was published and became one of Newman’s most famous works. The portrait served as a powerful reminder of the atrocities committed during World War II and the individuals who were responsible for them.
• Alfred Krupp designed and developed new machines, invented the spoon roll for making spoons and forks, and manufactured rolling mills for use in government mints.

Contextual-

• 1963
• Alfried Krupp, the son of Gustav Krupp, was born in Essen, Germany, on 13th August, 1907. After studying engineering in Munich and Berlin he joined his father’s company, Friedrich Krupp AG, that by the First World War was Germany’s largest armaments company.
• Krupp and his father were initially hostile to the Nazi Party. However, in 1930 they were persuaded by Hjalmar Schacht that Adolf Hitler would destroy the trade unions and the political left in Germany. Schacht also pointed out that a Hitler government would considerably increase expenditure on armaments. In 1933 Krupp joined the Schutzstaffel (SS).
• As a result of the terms of the Versailles Treaty the Krupp family had been forced to become producers of agricultural machinery after the First World War. However, in 1933, Krupp factories began producing tanks in what was officially part of the Agricultural Tractor Scheme. They also built submarines in Holland and new weapons were developed and tested in Sweden.
• During the Second World War Krupp ensured that a continuous supply of his firm’s tanks, munitions and armaments reached the German Army. He was also responsible for moving factories from occupied countries back to Germany where they were rebuilt by the Krupp company.
• Krupp also built factories in German occupied countries and used the labour of over 100,000 inmates of concentration camps. This included a fuse factory inside Auschwitz. Inmates were also moved to Silesia to build a howitzer factory. It is estimated that around 70,000 of those working for Krupp died as a result of the methods employed by the guards of the camps.
• In 1943 Adolf Hitler appointed Krupp as Minister of the War Economy. Later that year the SS gave him permission to employ 45,000 Russian civilians as forced labour in his steel factories as well as 120,000 prisoners of war in his coalmines.
• Arrested by the Canadian Army in 1945 Alfred Krupp was tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg. He was accused of plundering occupied territories and being responsible for the barbaric treatment of prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates. Documents showed that Krupp initiated the request for slave labour and signed detailed contracts with the SS, giving them responsibility for inflicting punishment on the workers.
• Krupp was eventually found guilty of being a major war criminal and sentenced to twelve years in prison and had all his wealth and property confiscated. Convicted and imprisoned with him were nine members of the Friedrich Krupp AG board of directors. However, Gustav Krupp, the former head of the company, was considered too old to stand trial and was released from custody

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