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.”
Sarah Marshall
3/30/2017 08:33:03 am
This is a photograph by McNair Evans. The photograph is of a car with a broken windshield and a few holes in it. There is a book on the dashboard of the car that reads "CHURCH OF GOD GENERAL ASSEMBLY". The lighting is bright. I think the artist used bright colors to show that happiness and good things can come out of a bad situation.
Nick Perez
3/30/2017 08:33:28 am
This is a thought provoking image. It is a photo of a car with a broken windshield, and the windshield clearly has many holes in it. The windshield is shattered, and there is a book laying in the bottom. The image comes from a collection of images by McNair Evans, and this collection of images details the life of his father. The content of this image is beautiful as is the form.
Peyton Nebens
3/30/2017 08:34:23 am
This photo is by McNair Evans. This photograph is of a interior of a older car I would say. And the photo is the interior and of the window of the car and it is shattered. I really like this photo. I like the lighting he used. It seems that the lighting is natural lighting coming into the car and its very pleasing to look at.
Mouna Al-Hakeem
3/30/2017 08:34:45 am
This image is of an inside of a car. The photographer is using natural sunlight. It is using warm colors. There is book that has the church of God. The window is broken. The inside looks broken down.
Eddie Garcia
3/30/2017 08:35:00 am
This is an image that was taken from the interior of an old car. The interior of the car is still in good condition. If you look at the glass on the car you can see that it was somehow broken. you can also tell that the image was either taken in the morning or in the afternoon due to the position of the shadow. Under the windscreen you can see a book.
This image depicts the interior of a car which window is shattered. The sun is setting which makes the appearance of the shattered window more spectacular. This image was taken and published by McNair Evans. The artist took this photo based around his father's passing and life before. The lighting is meant to lay out an "aftermath" tone to the photograph. 3/30/2017 08:38:01 am
This photo is of a crashed car. The windshield is bashed in as though a heavy rock or person fell on it. It is using the colors of black, brown, and clear. The lighting is using only natural light. There are no people shown in the picture.
Roman Ruiz
3/30/2017 08:39:21 am
This photograph by McNair Evans can have several ways to interpret it. This image is the interior of a car showing a broken window with a hole. McNair shares with the audience that most of his work is about his father, so this can either show the way he died, or how McNair feels on the inside. This image uses dark colors to show how deep the image is.
Harrison Fentress
3/30/2017 08:41:34 am
This is an image from the inside of a truck, or car of some type, where the windshield is smashed and there is the book "Church of God: General Assembly" on the dashboard. It is using brownish, neutral colors. The lighting is sun-lit and dark shadows. The objects beyond the windshield are indecipherable. There is no action in the picture.
Yin Bo
3/30/2017 08:42:35 am
It is a picture of the interior of car. The camera is shooting from the person sitting on the right seat. The front window is broken. It uses sunlight but there's shadow all over the place. It uses a lot of dark colors.
Stow Neilson
3/30/2017 08:47:36 am
The image is of a car with a broken windshield with a book that says "Church Of God General Assembly". The Colors are dull grey and browns with a small amount of blue. It does so to show sadness or hopelessness. The book and most of the car is lit up using natural lighting. There are only a small amount of shadows in this image.
Will Thompson
3/30/2017 08:52:07 am
The atmosphere of this image seems gloomy. It may be just the reason behind the photograph that makes it feel this way, but it might also be the general feel of it. The either dawn or dusk like light is another contributing factor to the gloominess of the image. Yet another would be the shadow being cast around the car.
Daniel Herrera
3/30/2017 08:55:05 am
In the image you see what appears to be a old car that's window got destroyed. This image appears almost to be using a LUT color grading style, because of it saturation level and because of its bright colors. This image’s exposure seems to be perfect, because the important details are showing but the shadow is also really dark so it's not bright nor dark. In the image the main focus is the broken window and the book which has a vibrant light blue causing it to stand out more. I'm the image the hole on the broken windows is right above the “Church of God General assembly”.
Karina Samuel
3/30/2017 09:20:14 pm
This image is part of McNair Evan’s series “Confessions For A Son”. The prospective of the camera is from inside a car. The image consists of a wood and plastic dashboard and a book paced on top of it. However, the most eye catching feature of this scene is the shattered windshield. The lighting is really intriguing with only parts of the dashboard hit with natural light and the rest of the car is dark. It is bright outside because the window is transparent and the blue tint at the top is visible. Comments are closed.
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