A great photograph.
The collapse of the latest bubble on Wall Street prompts mention of what may be the finest picture ever taken of that great locale.
Now brace yourself, it’s by Paul Strand, a photographer who is vastly overrated.
This was taken shortly after Alfred Stieglitz had taken Strand aside and talked him out of his genuinely frightful soft focus phase, and I think you will agree that Strand’s newly found religion of objectivism is a standout image in the age of modernity.
Paul Strand, Wall Street, 1915
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