“One Sunday morning I took the train into Manhattan, and as I came up out of the subway, I saw a triangle of light piercing the darkness. I liked the geometry and angles, and intensified them by tilting the camera. Then this woman appeared. She had the straight lines and angles of her surroundings, and curves that seemed to complete them. She came from below, walking with grace and determination out of the depths of a New York City subway station….Seen from the back in silhouette, her form is impersonal, and I felt she stands for humanity making its way from darkness into light.”
—Len Bernstein
from his book Photography, Life, and the Opposites