ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This photo's most immediate characteristic is the dominant rightward vanishing point underwritten by the East River, the peer, its visitors and Manhattan. A second vanishing point emerges with the Williamsburg bridge deck, the length of wood of the peer and, again, Manhattan.

While the spectator's focus wanders around the two-dimensional picture, it also zooms back and forth along its perpendicular axis to follow the wildly different depths of the bridge, Manhattan and the peer.

Furthermore, the pulse created by the superposition of interleaved adult characters in dark clothes on the peer, on the one hand, and the Manhattan skyline in the back, on the other, further enhances the composition's dynamics.

Other peculiarities can be noted:

- the character dressed in white stands out not only from the other characters but also from the entire picture

- the little girl crossing the peer on her own

Several details make this photography well-suited for large-format development

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