Workers are seen walking past the J.P. Morgan & Co. building in New York City on the famous Wall Street, from which the photograph takes its name.

The photograph is famous for its reliance on the sharpness and contrast of the shapes and angles, created by the building and the workers, that lead to its abstraction.

Stieglitz pushed Strand to involve real-life subjects and less manual manipulation of the print and utilized the style that was innate to the methods and materials of photography.

[2] Strand interpreted this request from Stieglitz and created this new style that incorporated high contrasts, clean lines, and emphasis on shape.

Strand photographed "people hurrying to work past the banking building"[3] situated on Wall Street, from which the photo takes its name.

The workers are included in the image, but are faceless and are trumped in size by the massive square shapes from the building they walk past.

These people are also shrouded in the contrast made evident with the clean lines and black and white nature of his photos and photography as a medium.

As stated on the George Eastman House website section Notes on Photography, Strand would make large prints from small negatives.

Having taken Hine's class at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, social change became important to Strand and appeared often in his art.

Strand shows "the recently built J.P. Morgan Co. building, whose huge, dark recesses dwarf the passersby with the imposing powers of uniformity and anonymity.