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--
Brooke Kapoor
1/5/2022 07:15:07 am
This image was very interesting to me. When I first saw it, my mind immediately started to wonder what the other half of his face looks like.
Trinity Wilkinson
1/5/2022 08:36:25 am
The image is of a young boy. The subject of this image is mostly seen except the young boy’s face is partially covered. In this image the boy is shown sitting on stairs. The tones in this image are duller and darker, mostly greys, browns, and blacks. In this image there are a lot of shadowy areas with no direct lighting.
Myrthea Vigil
1/5/2022 08:44:17 am
The image is of a boy sitting on a set of stairs, the top part of his face covered by the reddish handrail. The image is using mostly cool tones, but also has a few warm tones for contrast. The lighting of the image is a bit gray. It doesn’t really have any bright lights or dark shadows. In the back, you can see a small sort of like a forest that gets cut off by cement and then leads you to the boy sitting on the stairs.
reagan bishop
1/5/2022 08:44:28 am
When I look at this photo you can't see his eyes. I think that his photographer wanted to make this photo kind of mysterious and conceal his identity. Maybe this man in the photo really didn't want his identity to be out there or maybe this is just how the photographer wanted it. Even though you can't see his eyes or his hair you can see his nose and mouth and that does give some kind of identification and it makes you put the pieces together in your head. I want to see what he looks like and it makes me look at the photo more. I really like this photo and I want to see if there is a photo of him so I could see what he looks like.
Lily Warr
1/5/2022 08:45:14 am
This is an image of an older boy, probably a teenager, sitting on some steps. There are a lot of neutral colors and it almost seems like it was cloudy outside when the photo was taken. The boy’s face is covered by the stair railing. Behind him is a bunch of bushes or trees.
John Paul Ortiz
1/5/2022 08:45:25 am
The picture is a guy sitting on some stairs and the rail is blocking his eyes. It’s using grey because of the concrete stairs, and the railing is brown, and the grass is green. The main subjects of the picture are lighter and the background is darker. There is a person, some stairs, the railing of the stairs, and the background of grass and trees.
Kevin Kessler
1/5/2022 08:48:14 am
I like how the wood piece is covering his eye. There is also a lot of contrast with the bright concrete and dark trees. I also notice his shoes are a little beat up. They also look like they could be used for skateboarding which might explain why they’re beat up. He is sitting on some concrete steps.
Katie Hendrick
1/5/2022 08:48:21 am
This is an image of a person sitting on steps outside with two planks of wood covering his eyes in the frame. These planks are most likely part of a railing for the steps. These planks are a dark red. Which makes them stand out against the neutral colors of the rest of the image. This photo looks like it was taken on a cloudy day because there is no significant source of light. There is a pile of fallen leaves by the person’s feet and a dark green bush in the background. There is also a ledge in the frame that is light grey.
Jorie weeks
1/5/2022 08:49:09 am
When I first look at the image I see a boy sitting on the stairs. These stairs go beyond him in the background going south of the way the boy is facing. I also am not able to see the full face of this boy due to a red hand rail in front of the boy that seems to be made out of wood. If I were to guess I would say this picture was taken on a foggy day due to the dim lighting. The background appears to be abstract from my point of view due to the change in direction of stairs, concrete wall, and panel of brush. There is a splash of color in the leaves bringing a warm tint along with the red hand rail.
Brighton Dietrich
1/5/2022 08:52:05 am
This picture is a kid sitting on a set of stairs outside. You can see his whole body, except for his eyes. You can’t see his eyes because they are covered by a red wood guardrail. The kid is wearing jeans, a black shirt, and black shoes. He is focused on the camera, but the wood is blocking his view and the wood is blocking our view of him. The lighting is bright around the kid, but dark in the background.
Jackson Uhr
1/5/2022 08:52:05 am
The image is of a man sitting on some steps. The man is wearing faded blue jeans and a black shirt, and the upper part of his face is covered by wooden stair railing. He seems to be in a park because of the thick grove of trees behind him. The lighting in this image is fairly dark. Nothing seems to be happening in this image other than the man just chilling on the steps.
Olivia Talley
1/5/2022 08:52:51 am
The photo is showing a man sitting on what appears to be concrete stairs. There is a dark red colored wooden post that is hiding the majority of the man’s face, which was probably intended by the photographer. The man is wearing blue jeans and a black shirt, with what looks to be black Heely shoes. There is a cluster of trees behind him that are deep green and add some contrast to the photo. From the lighting of the photo, I am guessing that the image was taken on a cloudy day.
Christian Lacayo
1/5/2022 09:31:21 pm
This photo depicts a boy sitting on what looks to be some concrete steps with his eyes covered by the rails. This image does not use very vibrant colors, mostly just neutral tones. It was daytime when he took this photo, and the setting looks like the front yard of a house. The lightest part of the photo seemed to be the bottom and the darkest the top. The color and general theme makes me think of sadness.
Max Eitter
1/10/2022 06:13:12 pm
The image is of a of a guy(or boy) sitting down on a what seems to be a public staircase and the colors are kind of dull and the lighting is cloudy(as in a cloudy day).They probably gave off dull colors and dim lighting to show off an uncheerful and unbright mood to kind of set a point that,“Hey!!! This is supposed to be dark and make you exhibit melancholy throughout the rest of your day!”. There are dead/weared down leaves on the sidewalk and grass and some kind of cedar looking tree behind him. The actual staircase and sidewalk(+sidewalk wall) is concrete, while everything else on the stairs is a wooden rail to hold onto, a human, some dead leaves and cold colored clothes on the human. Half of the boy's face is covered ,and the half that’s showing seems to be showing some sadness to maybe even no emotions, but because of his posture he seems to be sad, disappointed, confused, upset, and even resentful like he’s pondering something he can’t get off his mind. So I guess what’s happening is he’s not having a good time. Comments are closed.
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