Find two landscape photographs that question social values or act as a metaphor for personal issues that the photographer is trying to express. Discuss whether the communication is clear or ambiguous and how this communication is conveyed.
Example: What does the image below say about humans need to control the environment? Or, does it indicate an attempt to recreate a time long past and remind people of their outdoor beginnings? What do you think? Does it say anything different?
My Response
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| Demolition - Joe Trevino. This picture depicts a house about to be demolished in Buckeye, AZ. The social value in the picture is change. The house in the picture is damaged and has a pretty messy yard, but there is an office in the background (the grey building to the left of the yellow one). The message is pretty clear that the house is about to be brought down but the "why" is unclear, is the house being razed to make way for an improvement to the aforementioned office in the background or is the house just an eyesore? Who knows, all that can be said is, change is on the way. |
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| Outreached Hand - DeviantArt.com. This picture is shot from a first person view of a hand reaching out. Although blurred (due to shallow depth of field), cars and a street are visible in the background. I believe the picture to be a metaphor for a social value of helping one in need. The hand represents a man in need (which explains why it is held out) and the blurred cars represent all the people that pass the man without stopping to help or ask what's wrong. I The communication is rather ambiguous, for all I know the picture has no meaning and was just meant to look cool, but I could be wrong. |
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