Today you will be writing about an image from artist McNair Evans' series Confessions For A Son.
Write 4 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember, refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Read the Project Statement before you write: Summary Confessions for a Son juxtaposes photographs I made in 2010 and 2011 concerning the lasting psychological landscape of my fathers legacy with images taken by him roughly 40 years ago to explore a complex relationship between father and son and the disappearance of an American, agrarian way of life. Statement There was no man that my father admired more than his father, and no one his father admired more than the man who raised him. With tenderness of heart and warm humor my father met everyone as his equal. Upon his death in November 2000, I was exposed to our family businesses insolvency. Dad faced a series of devastating fires, bad crops, perpetual over-extension and high-interest loans. Five generations of familial and financial stability fractured. While the economic effects were immediately obvious, the emotional implications lingered beneath the surface for nine years. In 2010 I returned home to photograph the lasting psychological landscape of Dad’s legacy. Retracing my father’s life, I used photography to comprehend its events. Visiting the farms where we hunted, his college dorm rooms, and his oldest friends, I photographed his family members and businesses while researching his character and actions. I could not equate these. These photographs narrate my journey between isolation and acceptance. Initially confused and angry, I grew to know him as a teenager, college student, co-worker, life-long friend, and father who lovingly withheld business realities. I witnessed shortcomings and successes and found empathy with a man who faced so much in his life. His sacrifices cost the ultimate price, and accepting that some questions may never be answered, I grew to love him again. These works share my emotions after his death, my search to learn more abut him in recent years, and a journey of acceptance and forgiveness. These pictures are my way of saying its OK. Everything that happened is done and it’s OK. They are my way of taking ownership of everything that I felt, and all the anger and all the shame, and saying, “Yes, I felt that, and it’s OK to feel that, and I still love you.”
Zachary Perkins
3/30/2017 06:15:34 am
In this image, there is a teenager dressed in a uniform of some sort. He is wearing a red collared shirt and tan pants with a belt. His room is filled with shadows and a lot of the objects in his room are covered in a shadow. This image is using warm colors. What looks to be happening in this image is that the teen just arrived to his room and is looking't something to do.
Olivia Iskander
3/30/2017 06:20:44 am
The image is of the artist McNair Evans’ retracing/coping his father and the places he went/did. the colors that are being used are red, and lots of browns. The lighting is Dark shadows and a little bit of bright sunlight coming from a window. The objects included in the image is this boy and what looks like to be a room. In the image it looks like this boy is staring at the floor sad & stressed.
Grant Kahl
3/30/2017 06:20:54 am
in this photo you can see a boy or possibly a young adult. he is wearing a red polo shirt and khakis. The stereotype of a “College student”. i know that this photo is from a college dorm from the contents of the photo. from the large wooden dresser in the bottom right shows that this is a living place. Along with the dresser the Desk in the background hints at a stack of books, trinkets, and binders which all hint towards student life. 3/30/2017 06:24:15 am
This photograph is focused on a boy in a dorm room most likely at a college. The boy is standing with his head turned and his hands at his sides. However, there is a shadow from the window's border that covers the boys face to hide his expression. In the background there is a desk and a couple of shelves stacked with books and binders.
William Oliver
3/30/2017 06:24:26 am
This is a photograph of a college student standing in his dorm. He is dressed preppy with khaki pants and a polo. His room looks like a normal students dorm and it has everything we have in our own rooms such as a shoe and towels hanging on the door and books and binders in it. From this view we only see half of a dresser, a door with towels hanging on it, a shelf with books and a soccer ball on it and a desk and a little of the wind. There are shadows going across the room that cover the students face.
Kyle Meister
3/30/2017 06:24:27 am
In the image by McNair Evans, a boy stands still in the middle of his room. The room is dark and not well lit. McNair expresses meaning and admeration in each image. The photos he takes in this series are a flashback or remembrance of his father. McNair retraced his fathers life, with photography. By going back to farms he hunted, or college dorms he lived at. 3/30/2017 06:25:03 am
This image is of a boy in his room. He is surrounded by things that give the viewers possibly pieces of him. The colors are exposed only through the singular ray of sunlight going through the room and his deep red shirt that he's wearing. The lighting is dramatic in the sense that the shadows are dark and the highlights are bright. But the colors he light is reflecting on is soft. 3/30/2017 06:30:14 am
This image shows a african american boy who is standing in the room of the photographers father. The boy has his shirt tucked in properly and has a collar t-shirt. He has a watch and is wearing a nice brown leather belt. The shadow of the room makes it not able to view his face but I can see a lot just from how he dresses who he is. He seems like a student maybe in boarding school and his fathers roommate. The colors are very vivid especially in the boys shirt which really pulls your eye to look at him. The lighting is dark shadows and its quite hard to see various things in the photo. In this photo the boy is just standing in an awkward pose which makes him seem unnatural.
Simon Bruhn
3/30/2017 06:31:35 am
The image by McNair Evans is taken in his father’s old dorm room. It taken as he is sifting through his father’s life, and the way his father lived is somewhat represented by the student now living in the dorm. The dorm room itself looks very similar to what it probably looked like when the father lived there. It looks typical of an older college dorm building, and also typical of young adult life. The student also probably does much the same things as the father, and so all of this leads to a good representation of the short amount of time the father spent living there.
Raven
3/30/2017 06:35:53 am
Caden Fincke
3/30/2017 06:39:54 am
The image is of a young, black man in his college dorm room. The man is wearing khaki pants with a brown belt and a red polo with white stripes. The image uses a lot of dark shadows as the lighting is only from the window of the room. This darkens parts of the room while still shedding light on some parts of the image. Most notably this is used with the man as his bod is pretty well lit, but his face is hidden by the shadows as he stares at the floor. 3/30/2017 06:43:35 am
Nostalgic vibes radiate off of McNair Evans’s series entitled Confessions for a Son. In the image, McNair heavily uses shadows. This largely in part due to the fact that it creates the opportunity to evoke nostalgic feelings from the viewer. These shadows also allow the viewer to more deeply connect to the subject in the middle of the image, as the subject’s face is blacked out, thus allotting for the viewer to immerse themselves into the subject. In addition, McNair allowed natural light to seep into the set. This ties the image together, balancing it all out, not allowing for the shadows and subject to overwhelm the frame.
Alexis Parsons
4/12/2017 08:17:20 am
in this photo there is a kid standing in his room. this photograph is by McNair Evans. the kid is standing in his room. in the room behind him there is a soccer ball and some binders. there is also a window to the left. Comments are closed.
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