When Paul Strand captured this picture, I think the three things that interested him were this photograph’s pattern, tone, and shape. The rectangles on the upper half of the picture form a pattern, and the tone of this picture, which is the shadow and light, creates the rectangles. Thus, these three things are combined and form an abstract photograph above.

The title I would give to this picture is “The Light” because the light forms the shape and pattern in this photograph, thus making it abstract. Lights create the shadows in this photograph; the rectangle shapes form by the shadows located in two different locations (surface and wall) and in two different angles (slightly vertical and horizontal). This makes the photograph unusual.

The lines of this photograph, which are created by the tone (bright tone and dark tone), outline the rectangle and triangle shapes and draw the audience’s attention to the upper half of this picture, where the pattern exists. The repetitive rectangles form a pattern, which is the focus/photographer’s point of view of this photograph. At last, the texture and color of this picture make viewers feel the hardness of the material (maybe wood).

The best thing about this photograph is the composition of shadow and light, the most essential factor of it. The light and shadow create every element and also connect these elements together to form this abstract photograph.