Afghan Girl Analysis
The portrait has always been a key point of the arts, whether it be the refined face of ‘Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo da Vinci or ‘L’image fantôme’ by Hervé Guibert. The common features of all photographic portraits combine the genre in content and means of expression, therefore the atmosphere and mood in an image play a significant part in photography.
Photography denotes a fraction of a second in life; a second which if missed will be gone forever, never can it occur again. The gesture and movement of a person, the wind blowing a girl’s hair into the air, the look in the person’s eyes or the light reflecting into a someone’s face are all life elements of which are in continuous change.
There are plural meanings behind the word ‘photograph’, it …show more content…
Since that time, the image has been republished frequently in diverse contexts, it’s meaning altered and augmented with reincarnation. The photograph and the photographer gained fame, even as the girl survived seventeen years of repatriation, unaware of the use of her image.
The second photograph ‘Migrant Mother’ of Florence Owens Thompson a 32-year old mother of seven. This photography of Thompson and her children became a key symbol of the Great Depression and one of America’s most famous photos. The photograph was taken at a pea pickers’ camp in Nipomo, California in 1936. The photograph was reproduced in the media, encouraging the federal authorities to send in food to the thousands of starving employees stuck where the photograph was taken. However, the relief arrived too late for the mother and her young family; they had already moved on, although she remained anonymous at the time, in 1976 Florence Owens Thompson revealed herself as the face of the photo that had defined an …show more content…
The facial expression of the girl, her clothes and the colour scheme give a strong narrative in this photograph. Gula wasn’t prepared for the picture, which shows just how fearful she was of Mccurry taking the photograph. This also demonstrates how these people are always fearful of danger and war.
The photograph of Dorothea Lange, photographer of the “ Migrant mother”, was taken within context of the Great Depression; the viewer can easily see how the photograph captures simultaneously a sense of individual worth and class difference. The photograph implies reality, rather than reflecting it or representing it. The emphasis is upon what the view as ‘reader’ of the image takes as the principal cues and clues for use as the basis interpretation.
In Migrant Mother, Lange builds a narrative around a woman and her three children, cantered on the single gesture of an upraised arm.
The photograph is created around certain notions of the female body, including the idea of the nurturing mother. It leads the viewer to assume that the woman is a single mother left to raise her children on her own. The image portrays a clear distinction of social issues in the USA; the viewer can tell that the family is struggling for survival. The two children are standing close to their mother depicting a sense of security received from
Photography denotes a fraction of a second in life; a second which if missed will be gone forever, never can it occur again. The gesture and movement of a person, the wind blowing a girl’s hair into the air, the look in the person’s eyes or the light reflecting into a someone’s face are all life elements of which are in continuous change.
There are plural meanings behind the word ‘photograph’, it …show more content…
Since that time, the image has been republished frequently in diverse contexts, it’s meaning altered and augmented with reincarnation. The photograph and the photographer gained fame, even as the girl survived seventeen years of repatriation, unaware of the use of her image.
The second photograph ‘Migrant Mother’ of Florence Owens Thompson a 32-year old mother of seven. This photography of Thompson and her children became a key symbol of the Great Depression and one of America’s most famous photos. The photograph was taken at a pea pickers’ camp in Nipomo, California in 1936. The photograph was reproduced in the media, encouraging the federal authorities to send in food to the thousands of starving employees stuck where the photograph was taken. However, the relief arrived too late for the mother and her young family; they had already moved on, although she remained anonymous at the time, in 1976 Florence Owens Thompson revealed herself as the face of the photo that had defined an …show more content…
The facial expression of the girl, her clothes and the colour scheme give a strong narrative in this photograph. Gula wasn’t prepared for the picture, which shows just how fearful she was of Mccurry taking the photograph. This also demonstrates how these people are always fearful of danger and war.
The photograph of Dorothea Lange, photographer of the “ Migrant mother”, was taken within context of the Great Depression; the viewer can easily see how the photograph captures simultaneously a sense of individual worth and class difference. The photograph implies reality, rather than reflecting it or representing it. The emphasis is upon what the view as ‘reader’ of the image takes as the principal cues and clues for use as the basis interpretation.
In Migrant Mother, Lange builds a narrative around a woman and her three children, cantered on the single gesture of an upraised arm.
The photograph is created around certain notions of the female body, including the idea of the nurturing mother. It leads the viewer to assume that the woman is a single mother left to raise her children on her own. The image portrays a clear distinction of social issues in the USA; the viewer can tell that the family is struggling for survival. The two children are standing close to their mother depicting a sense of security received from