The Photo I chose is Bedroom by Thomas Holton from ” The Lams of Ludlow Street” photo collection. It is a photo of a bedroom belonging to a Chinese family living in Chinatown New York. Something I noticed about the picture is that it seems naturally put together instead of purposely being set up in the way it is and the clothes and sheet hanging looks like a normal thing. there are also blankets on a bed which seems like laundry was just done and they needed to be folded and the bed has wrinkles and lines which seems like people was on it right before the photo was taken. The colors in the photo fits well with it and the bed colors lightens up the mood of the photo which has a chill feeling.
one of the three formal elements that is important to the photo is Diagonals and they are shown in the ceiling and bottom wall of the room, and it shows great movement. Patterns is also shown in the upper right of the photo with pictures lined up in a pattern and the beds are also in a pattern. The third element would be Framing, and it is shown with the windows and also the whole image looks framed.
Holton does set the beds at a diagonal here and as you mention, the beds form a pattern. This photo is not an example of frame within a frame.
And what else do we see? Three beds with sheets of bright cheerful colors next to each other without even room to walk between them. The parents wedding photo looks down on the scene from the wall. The living conditions seem to be very cramped and yet the bright colors and the decoration make it seem like a happy home.