Today you will be writing about this image by artist Zora Murff, which is from his series titled Corrections. Your analysis must be 4 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember to post your analysis as a comment to the blog post that corresponds to your class. If you post your analysis to the wrong class's post, it will not be graded.
Below is a project statement written by Murff about his body of work, Corrections: From 2012 to 2015, I worked as a Tracker for Linn County Juvenile Detention and Diversion Services in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As a Tracker, I provided services to youths who were convicted of crimes, adjudicated, and subsequently ordered to complete probation. Juveniles in my charge were asked to comply with services which may include: electronic monitoring, therapies, drug screening, and community service; it was my responsibility to have continual contact with them to ensure these expectations are met. Tracking and other similar community-based services are being increasingly used as an alternative to detention facilities. These services, which allow juveniles to stay in their homes, show a higher rate of success than strict incarceration. Although community-based services are built to foster a collaborative relationship between juveniles and service providers, attaining the actualization of teamwork becomes problematic when juveniles feel that they have done nothing wrong, are victims of circumstance, or do not fully understand why they have committed a crime. The system has been put in place to provide rehabilitation, but it is far from being a straightforward process. Many influences outside of the youths' control such as education, socioeconomic status, and race all play a role in whether or not a youth reoffends - all of these factors possessing the propensity to lead them to extended periods of incarceration in the juvenile system or to involvement with the criminal justice system as an adult. By reconsidering the role that I played in the lives of the kids I worked with, I began to acknowledge the burden that comes with tasking young men and women with continued complicity. My stance as a consequence kept our relationships in a state of flux ranging from stable to tenuous – a constant motion mirroring the discord that develops between the system's intentions and outcomes. Through employing ideas of anonymity, voyeurism, and introspection, Corrections is an examination of youth experience in the system, the role images play in defining someone who is deemed a criminal, and how the concepts of privacy and control may affect their future. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Priya Tewari-Pine
1/5/2022 06:17:25 am
This photo is very interesting. The first thing I noticed was the color of the track. I can see the individual grains of the track, but everything else in the background is unfocused. The color scheme is also kind of interesting, the hues are quite gray. The whole picture has an air of depression.
Luigi Jajou
1/5/2022 06:25:29 am
A photo that shows aspiration while being incarcerated by life. That's what this photo here shows me. The photo displays a black man looking behind him at the goal post. Displaying his emotion of sadness as he aspired to become someone. The background is all a blur showing that this life path has sailed away.
Ben Hokenson
1/5/2022 06:25:48 am
In the photo for today’s critical analysis, I see a black man standing on a gravel track wearing all black clothes, white socks, sandals, and what appears to be an ankle bracelet thing on his ankle. He is standing on the track outside of the football field, which leads me to believe he is an athlete of some sort and has probably just finished up football practice. He also seems to be pretty strong as we can see the cuts of his bicep, tricep, and his calf muscles in his legs. There seem to be relatively nice houses in the background of the image which shows the level of poverty within the area. Also, he is looking over his shoulder and looking back as if he is trying to hide his face from the camera.
Carol Marin
1/5/2022 06:28:13 am
The first thing we see is a man with his track uniform on a track field. He is a strong man because we can see the muscles in his arms. He is looking away from the camera and onward to the goalpost he is also wearing a GPS monitor on his ankle. It's using warm and cold colors. The lighting is pretty dim as we don't see much sunlight in the picture. Objects in the picture include a man who is strong and is probably practicing running around the track.
Carolina
1/5/2022 06:43:48 am
The image is of a boy maybe around 16 years old, he is standing in a football field staring at the goal post. The colors shown in this picture are mostly all dark except for the small amount of light at the top. I think that the colors shown in this picture give it a good feel for what the photographer is trying to show. The lighting looks very natural. At first glance you would think not a lot is happening in this picture but once you look at the details there is so much more to it. There are houses in the background which means that the football field might not be in a school. The football field might be in a park of the community where the boy lives. It is probably used by the Juvenile Detention center to perform some sort of service.
Sofia Pinto
1/5/2022 06:54:05 am
This image depicts a teenage boy who is on probation for committing a crime. This is why he is wearing an ankle monitor. The boy seems to be dressed in all black, which could be used to symbolize the boy's dark past. He is staring at a goal post, which means his face is not shown. This is a common pattern in Zora Murff’s series called Corrections. This is because Murf is trying to prove that one shouldn’t be judged by their looks in order to understand if a person is good or bad. Murr uses bright sunlight to emphasize this teenage boy. She also uses a track around a football field to highlight that this boy can still be part of a community amidst his errors. He can still go to school and make friends amidst his rough beginnings. Behind the goal post are trees and little houses. Since it is very hard to see, this adds to the tension of the image.
Grayson
1/5/2022 02:59:11 pm
This image by Zora Murff shows a teenager standing on a track, looking back towards the goal post. On his right leg he is wearing a tracking ankle bracelet. Everything that he is wearing is black except for his white socks and wrist band. The white, overcast sky prevents rigid shadows from being cast onto the faded red surface of the track. The image uses undersaturated and drab colors to present the viewer with the bleak reality of the situation.
Ekam Mehat
1/5/2022 08:17:44 pm
This photo by Zora Murff depicts an African-American teenager standing on a track field. He is wearing a black shirt, black shorts, and some black slippers. He also appears to be wearing an ankle monitor. This would allude to the audience that he has recently gotten into some sort of trouble and is on probation for that. The fact that the photographer used to be a juvenile detention tracker can confirm this theory.
julia daniec
1/13/2022 04:59:57 pm
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