By Emmet Gowin

Edith, Danville, Virginia 1971

The black and white photo is interesting. The focus of the photo is on the lady and most of the light is being shown on her dress, making part of her face shadowy. It looks like she is stretching but if I were to retake the picture I would have her put the arm that is up down by the other arm. The room is cool and dark and like in the photo "Willie Cooper", the  main source of light is coming from the windows and besides the subject, most of the other part of the picture is dark. However, there is a large depth of field so one can see that beyond the subject there is a bed and she is placed in a room.