Comparing Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass
Do photographic illustrations work as well as hand drawn techniques at communicating the content and atmosphere of fairy tales?
Thesis
Photography is becoming a more influential and common style of illustration. I will examine and compare the work of two illustrators, Disney and Tim Burton, who used photography and John Tenniel, who used hand drawn illustrations, to asses whether photography works as well at communicating the content and atmosphere of fairy tales.
Introduction
“Photographs are “easy” to understand in visual terms as they are composed of elements found around us and more importantly they allow viewers to envision themselves in the photograph.”
(Famous Noble (Unknown))
The use of photography creates a realistic view of what …show more content…
Lewis Carroll wrote a story about a young girl ‘Alice’ who fell through a rabbit whole into a fantasy world inhabited by strange, humanlike creatures. Alice encounters lots of different humanlike creatures throughout her journey through the world of nonsense, poetry and mind-boggling logic, like, the talking flowers, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Queen of Hearts, Jabberwocky and the White Queen. Alice’s adventures in Wonderland included shrinking, growing to the size of a giant, attending the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, playing Croquet and attending the Queen of Hearts court.
The story of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass” is full of binary opposites, such as, good and evil, men and women, light and dark and beauty and ugliness. The character Alice embodies the positive side of the binary opposites, by representing the idea of a good child who is kind and helpful. Where as, the character of The Queen of Hearts embodies the negative side of the binary opposites, by representing ugliness, cruelty and
Thesis
Photography is becoming a more influential and common style of illustration. I will examine and compare the work of two illustrators, Disney and Tim Burton, who used photography and John Tenniel, who used hand drawn illustrations, to asses whether photography works as well at communicating the content and atmosphere of fairy tales.
Introduction
“Photographs are “easy” to understand in visual terms as they are composed of elements found around us and more importantly they allow viewers to envision themselves in the photograph.”
(Famous Noble (Unknown))
The use of photography creates a realistic view of what …show more content…
Lewis Carroll wrote a story about a young girl ‘Alice’ who fell through a rabbit whole into a fantasy world inhabited by strange, humanlike creatures. Alice encounters lots of different humanlike creatures throughout her journey through the world of nonsense, poetry and mind-boggling logic, like, the talking flowers, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Queen of Hearts, Jabberwocky and the White Queen. Alice’s adventures in Wonderland included shrinking, growing to the size of a giant, attending the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, playing Croquet and attending the Queen of Hearts court.
The story of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass” is full of binary opposites, such as, good and evil, men and women, light and dark and beauty and ugliness. The character Alice embodies the positive side of the binary opposites, by representing the idea of a good child who is kind and helpful. Where as, the character of The Queen of Hearts embodies the negative side of the binary opposites, by representing ugliness, cruelty and