#1. Alvin Langdon Coburn was at the forefront of photography as art. At the time photography was young and new much like the skyscrapers and machinery in the quickly expanding cities of the second industrial revolution. Coburn’s photography depicts a cold, hard, and filthy place with smoke and steam rising into the sky above all else. Coburn is trying to convey the price of advancement and progress in his newly mechanization world.
#2. Riis and Hine promoted reform by documenting the harsh truths of the high price of progress of the industrial area. In figure four – nine Riis and Hine stage the photographs to convey the dire straits of the situation within the cities and factories. The people within