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Author: Elad Lassry Title: Wall Date: 2008 moma.org Principle of Design: Pattern Pattern is showing consistency with colors or lines. It is indicating movement by the repetition of elements and can make a photograph seem active. Repeating elements will unify the photograph as a whole and make rhythm. Pattern is repetition in the form of an exact duplication. This photograph repeats the elements color and shape and line. This causes your eye to wander, not just to look at one part of the photograph when looking at it. Pattern in this photograph creates rhythm and movement.

Artist: Robert Adams Title: Longmont, Colorado Date: 1979 moma.com Principle of Design: Contrast This photograph shows contrast between light and dark. The lights of the carnival rides are extremely lightand bright in contrast to the very dark background. This is a high contrast photograph because it contains two extremes, bright white and dark black. The use of this contrast draws the eye to the rides because they are the lightthat sticks out from the dark.

Artist:Garry Winogrand Title: Untitled from Women are Beautiful Date:1969 moma.org Principle of Design: Unity Unity is creating a sense of harmony and that pulls the picture together. It is the relationship among the elements of a visual that helps all the elements function together. Unity gives a sense of completeness to a visual image. This photograph uses several elements and principles to create unity. There is emphasis on the woman. There are different values of gray and contrast between the white and the dark grays. The buildings and the cross-walk use the elements line and shape. The space is well balanced and the ground has a lot of texture.

Artist: William Gedney Title: Untitled Date: 1966 moma.org Principle of Design: Balance This photograph is symmetrically or formally balanced, one half mirrors the other. The objects in this photograph are identical to each other based on the central vertical axis, resulting in bilateral syymetry. The two buildings are reflections of each other and the front of the car is a reflection of the back of the car when compared using the central vertical axis. In this photograph, the pole is where the central vertical axis is and everything to one side is a almost like a reflection of what is on the other side.

Artist: Berenice Abbott Title: A Gold Ball Bouncing Along a Hard Flat Board, Loses Energy. Where Has All the Energy Gone? Date: 1958 moma.org Principle of Design: Rhythm Rhythm is created when one or more elements of design are used repeatedly to create a feeling of organized movement. Rhythm is an easy, connected path along which the eye follows. This photograph has the repetition of a curve formed by a bouncing ball. Having this one shape makes your eye start at the beginning and go to the end. This creates a sense of movement in the photograph.

Artist: Harry Callahan Tile: Barbara, Chicago Date: 1953 moma.org Principle of Design: Emphasis In this photograph the little girl is where the emphasis is. Everything in the picture is dark and dismal except for the little girl. She stands apart from everthing else because she is dressed in white and is bright in comparison to her surroundings, which are shades of black and gray. The little girl is the first thing in this photograph that catches someone's eye because of the color and value contrast. She is the focal point of this photograph.

Artist: Barbara Morgan Title: Corn Leaf Rhythm Date: 1945 moma.org Principle of Design: Movement Movement shows the path someone's eye follows through a piece of art. Movement is made by using elements that give the feeling of action to someone's eyes. In this photograph, the corn leaf is a path that leads across the page. It causes whoever is looking at the photograph to view the photograph from the top to the bottom. It looks like the corn leaf is moving when I look at this photograph.