Joel Sternfeld, Warren Avenue at 23rd Street, Detroit, Michigan, October 1993

When I first see this image, the image of the man wearing red stands out and as the first thing i notice. The red he is wearing shouts blood and the picture as a whole sends the message of death. There are also many sentences written out around the photograph, all of which have to do with committing a crime, particularly the crime of killing another human being. The image's structure is actually very organized and has the ideas it is trying to convey spread out enough so that the viewer can focus on each one, yet together enough so that there is no negative space that has no meaning in the image. The photographer's point of view is that of an observer who takes the photograph without trying to seem manipulative of the images message since he takes the shoot squared off. The strongest metaphor in the image would have to be the red that shouts death to the viewer.