Liza and I talked about this photo in class today. We thought the caption for what Riis was trying to show was exactly the caption in the book: Bunks in a seven-cent lodging-house. We also added "crammed, dark, primitive condition". For the critics caption we said "the repetitive and continuous bunks and ceiling show the hopeless condition." The photo Steph and Marissa talked in class had many people crammed in a room full of stuff, while this picture has no one in it. Yet it is still terrible to imagine when these bunks are all filled with people. I actually think it is more powerful to show an empty room than a full room to show the horrible condition.
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