Response To Alfred Stieglitz

 The image is over exposed, yet the natural light shining through the window offsets the darkened room. The overall picture itself is clean, yet what's going on inside is a little more abstract. Although black and white, the light from the window gives off various shadow gray and white colors-shading. 

The note collage on the back wall gives the room an asymmetrical look, as does the vertical lines thrown on the table and wall from the curtains and sun. Although you can't see the floor and the lady's feet, through gestalt psychology we recognize that it exists. The lady is aligned in the center of the picture, which also seems to be the middle of the collage on the wall. Everything is aligned to each other, such that the item to the right of the candle is under the first image on the wall, the lady is under the second and third, and the chair is under the last. 

Although the lady is the main image, from afar she seems to blend in with the items on the table and the black and white of the ground, chair, and table making the image seem like an optical illusion. It shows a simple day's moment in a less than simple light.