men, hats, sidewalk, coats, black, white, walls, line, cars, corrosion, suit, ties, boarded walls,
COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURE
black bar fading into right corner, white barricade on one side, grey freedom on the other, black with white spotted bar, rectangles bordering either side, lateral in nature,
SYMBOL
poverty, run down, desperation, sickness, poor, keep out, loneliness, The Great Depression, 1930's, government inefficiency, unemployment, male workforce, order, peace, waiting, hoping, without hope, confusion, decay, fear, sorrow
VERBAL REPLACEMENT
This picture is of lost, confused, and desperate men. There are over 600 of them standing in black and white business suits facing the bottom of the waiting two by two for some kind of relief from their lack of work. Large boarded white walls barricade one left side of the photo and a decaying sidewalk takes up the other as it recedes into a hazy atmospheric mist. It looks as if its morning and 15 old fords are neatly packed like sardines parallel to the starved men. Some men are standing proud, while others seem upset and distressed.
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