This image, very graphic in its composition, shows the influence of Arthur Wesley Dow, a specialist in Japanese art and in particular in the art of Nōtan [濃淡], the harmony and interplay between light and dark elements (B&W)
Arthur F. Kales :: The Bubble. Photograms of the Year. The annual review of the world’s pictorial photographic work, 1917-1918 (plate IX). Edited by F. J. Mortimer | src archive.org