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That was Then, This is NowBy Katerin Ortega So, where was this picture taken? It could have been by a beach, in Downtown, or even by an amusement park, but, no-it was actually taken in a very common place in my life, right in front of my school. Such a photograph was taken in a place no one would acknowledge, a place you could pass by any day. It was taken very quickly and not with much thought. This brings out how a person from Los Angeles can live there but not really notice what's right in front of their eyes. I, as a current resident of Los Angeles, find it extremely interesting to observe things other people don't notice because they show a story of what Los Angeles was then and is now. The structures in this photograph all have different feels and tales to them. This photograph contains many layers, and the two main ones have two different time periods. In the back of the photograph, you can see the old Los Angeles: A-shaped houses where regular low-income people. When the background colors are compared to the foreground objects, the houses have some lines that aren’t as bold and powerful as the lines from the Metro bars. They have more of a dark or faded feeling, and that’s because they are not new at all. In fact they are pretty old, like 1990s old! |
| The last layer of the background has a solid light green tree compared to the very foreground, which not only contains a plant but bright orange flowers as well. These can represent how the community of Los Angeles has evolved. The middle ground has figures that catch your eye when you first observe this picture. The balance seems to be spread equally with both mid- and background. There seems to be unity in each object from their corresponding grounds; for example, the bold and sharp lines from the Metro bars show parallelism, and the houses and trees in the background have unity as well. This image also shows movement in the way that the male figure is waiting for the train to pass. This shows what the average Los Angeles university student might be doing on a regular basis. Overall, this picture is very full of life in the way that it shows movement, blasts colors, and also tells a story in different time periods.
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