Aaron Siskind:

• Texture
• Black and white color
• No pattern

Aaron Siskind uses dark colors to emphasize the texture and contrasts them with lighter-colored backgrounds. If I could name this photo, I would name it “Tilting Edge”. I think that the texture is unique in this photo, it is the main focusing point for viewers. My first impression of this photo was there is originally a plain wall or tree, but the edges are tilting, and it attracts my attention.

In this photo, Aaron Siskind used a lot of texture. He emphasized the cracking part to make it more 3 dimensions. Another element that Aaron Siskind used in this photo was the tone, the dark color balanced the main object and the light color background. He also used irregular shapes, the shapes of either the cracking or the background have a regular shape. It does not follow any pattern, and it does not have an identical shape in the whole photo.