Visual Analysis Of 'Into The Jaws Of Death'

In 1944, during World War Two, the US allies set up a plan to take over the mainlands of Europe in an effort to liberate where the Nazis had occupied during that time. This plan also know as The Normandy Invasion or Operation Overlord had roughly a year of planning and training for the soldiers to be prepared for the invasion. The Photo “Into the Jaws of Death” was taken early in the morning during the hours of the Allied Invasion of Normandy. The photograph shows a group of soldiers who are putting their lives on the line and going into extreme combat to help defend the Allied nations. Seeing this photo is visually quite striking. You are able to see the soldiers uniforms, the space between all of the men and the melodic theme of the spectacle of war, and the context of the exposure all provide the audience with a way to create significance or applications for the image, and through these can we understand the importance of the visual and what
With “Into the jaws of death the faces are not visible. Instead all we are able to see are the supplies they are carrying on there backs and some camouflage on their uniforms. The lack of face or eye contact to the camera is that the people seeing this picture cant really connect with them, but they are able to connect with the uniforms. In war times, uniforms in a picture can have a big impact on the person viewing the photo because the viewer attributes the person wearing that specific suit. So in this instance, the soldiers in the picture are putting there lives on the line so bravely for the United States forces in one of the most brutal and violent wars that the world had ever seen at that point in time, moving the viewing into a plain life into a life of war, all because of this simple uniform that the soldiers are wearing on their