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This photograph, London in movement #7, is a dynamic composition full of movement and contrast that demonstrates dominance. The headlight in the foreground juxtaposing the black car first draws the viewer into the piece while the curves of the car accentuated by the white writing and reflected light pulls the eye from this dominant object back into the street toward the running figure at the left of the photo. The negative space of the light colored street, buildings, and sky are visually balanced with the positive space of the darker valued shapes of the people and the car. The photograph promotes movement through the orientation of the dominant and subordinate shapes within. By placing the car with the headlight (the dominate shapes) asymmetrically within the picture’s frame a type of inequality amongst the objects is achieved. One’s eye then becomes focused on the subordinate shape, which is the silhouette of a man positioned in the left middle ground of the picture, and finally circles back to the dark colored car.  The man appears to be running toward the viewer which helps to complete the circular movement.