What's interesting about this photo, Tony's previous posting, and several of Tom's postings is that they use people in a radically different way than most of the photos that preceded them. The more "portrait" and "fashion" type shots use the person as a primary subject; what should interest us is the people and how they are portrayed.(posted 8810 days ago)In these shots, the people become symbols set in their environment, which might be a frozen street in an urban (?) environment or a large warehouse wall. We have to think about the relationship of the person to the world around them - their significance, or lack thereof, their humanity in a vanishing landscape, or maybe just temporal visitors in an infinite universe.
In the more traditional people photos, we are confronted with how we feel about the specific person in each photo. Our reactions are shaped by what we think that person might be like and how we would relate to them.
I'm not sure I have a point, but it's an interesting contrast.