© Bryan Schutmaat Today you will be writing about this photograph by artist Bryan Schutmaat. This image is from his series called Grays The Mountain Sends, a series of portraits, still life, and landscapes Schutmaat made of mining towns in the contemporary American West and the people who inhabit them.
As you write, consider what this portrait says about the person being photographed. What can you infer about the subject's identity? Who are they? Your analysis must be 5 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. If you do not complete your analysis in class, you must finish it for homework before your next class on MONDAY, 11/5/17. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Hasan Ehsan
11/2/2018 08:47:12 am
This image depicts a male individual on the older side in a portrait style. He’s not looking directly at the camera with his tired eyes, and he has a unique purple and silver shirt. His expression implies tiredness, and the natural light gives focus to his facial features. Besides the face, nothing else is being highlighted upon in this image. He looks he just had a long day at work, and this image is his natural state after such a work day.
Matthew Sutherland
11/2/2018 08:54:23 am
This photograph is the portrait of a man who is wearing a blue, gray, and purple shirt. The man has kind of long hair and a long beard. His hair is brown and his beard is gray and blonde. His face is very weathered and has many lines. The background is dark gray with lines on a wall. The man has brown eyes.
Clara Blume
11/2/2018 08:57:06 am
In this image, there is an older man wearing a purple and blue striped shirt. This man has a graying beard and dark hair. The skin on his cheeks and nose gives the effect that he has spent his life in the sun. He appears to be sitting in front of a wall with dark colored wood. This image is a portrait. The lighting is natural and it appears to be coming from a window on the man’s right so that shadows are cast along the left side of his body. The man is looking directly at the camera.
The nice old western photograph ( from the series called
Claire
11/2/2018 08:59:13 am
The image is a portrait of a middle-aged man. The man is wearing a polo shirt and has a long beard. The thick lines on his face and dark bags under his eyes show that he is tired. His eyes are looking below the camera. The image is composed of darker colors that make his skin and shirt pop.
eden vogelsang
11/2/2018 11:06:45 am
This image is of a man about in his 60’s. He looks tired and sad. There are a lot of dark colors like burgundy and navy in his shirt and the background is very dull and plain brown color. I think that Bryan Schutmaat used these colors to fit the mood of the man and the tone. The man in the image is just standing or sitting and he's looking forward but not directly at the camera.
mariah podwika
11/2/2018 01:16:14 pm
The image is of an older man with a dull colored striped shirt. He looks very withered and sad in the umage. He also has a beard and slicked down hair. There is a wall of wood behind the man and it reflects some of the light which gives the man an angelic glow. The man is staring off at something behind the camera. The dull colored shirt The lighting is very natural and soft like he’s sitting near a window.
mariah podwika
11/2/2018 01:19:27 pm
i do have 5 paragraphs. the first and second one combined. the second one begins with "The image has a very shallow depth of field."
Eduardo Saucedo
11/2/2018 01:28:18 pm
This image is about an old man that is either tired or sad. its using dark colors to make the image more dramatic. The old man looks very tired and sad, this man seems like he is a serial killer or that he is traumatized.
teresa lei
11/4/2018 08:47:05 am
Bryan Schutmaat creates the series Grays the Mountain Sends in a small town in the Rocky Mountains of Midwest America. This picture is a portrait of an old man with a thick beard and solemn countenance. He is in the center of the picture and his eyes are not focused. His hair is either wet or hasn't been washed in several days and his skin is drained and worn away by sunshine. The background is in dark brown. The tone of the image is cold and it shows a melancholy mood.
This is an image of a man who looks older and has a grey beard. The man is wearing a purple, green, and brown shirt. The colors that are used are brown for the background and it looks like wood paneling. The lighting is dark and it looks like the photograph was taken inside of a barn. There also is dark shadows due to the small amount of sunlight that is entering the room. The sugject that is used is a older looking man. The man looks like he just got back from whorking in or at a field or workshop and is sweaty and tired.
Troy Githinji
11/4/2018 07:02:44 pm
In this photo, we are introduced to an older man, maybe in his mid to late 60’s, staring blankly into the distance. His wrinkled face and droopy eyes lead the viewer to believe that he has probably spent lots of time in the sun. The lighting in this photo implies that it was taken in some sort of studio. The colors used in this photo are frankly quite bland and greyish. His eyes are not directly at the camera, but looking blankly into the distance, as if he is thinking.
farouk ramzan
11/5/2018 08:58:12 am
The image is by Bryan Schutmaat. There is natural lighting as the face of the man is lit up brighter than the rest of his body. His shirt consists of the colors: maroon and baby blue. The colors on the dress shirt make a great contrast. The background seems like the interior of his house as it might be made from wood. The man seems tired as he is staring into a distance. His eyes seem tired as they have a shade of red. He looks relatively old because of the wrinkles and white hair on the beard. His hair is combed to the right and seems wet most likely due to sweat from working outdoors.
Samantha Meldner
11/5/2018 09:00:22 am
In this image, Bryan Schutmaat, uses window light to portray the image of a man. However, the man does not smile or use a default posture that people tend to have in images, instead he is just as he is and does not act differently because there is a camera on him. The artist uses a correct exposure and a shallow depth of field to make the image more appealing to the eye. Thanks to the shallow depth of field, the subject is brought to our attention when we first look at the image. Schutmaat wants us to focus on the subject and only the subject because there is not much of a background for the audience to focus on.
Sofia Galindo
11/8/2018 10:43:34 am
This portrait made by Bryan Schutmaat is of an older man, probably in his 50s or 60s, that has a very somber look on his face. His eyes are bloodshot and almost look droopy, and he has many wrinkles, mostly around his eyes and on his forehead. His brown hair is straight and is covering a little part of his forehead. He has a long, scraggly beard that is a light ginger brown, but is graying at the bottom and his sideburns. The shot is from chest and up, but from what I can see, he is wearing a collar shirt with blue and purple stripes.
Sofia Galindo
11/8/2018 10:44:36 am
This portrait made by Bryan Schutmaat is of an older man, probably in his 50s or 60s, that has a very somber look on his face. His eyes are bloodshot and almost look droopy, and he has many wrinkles, mostly around his eyes and on his forehead. His brown hair is straight and is covering a little part of his forehead. He has a long, scraggly beard that is a light ginger brown, but is graying at the bottom and his sideburns. The shot is from chest and up, but from what I can see, he is wearing a collar shirt with blue and purple stripes.
Henry Cool
11/11/2018 10:16:33 pm
The image shows an older man in a nice striped shirt. He has a combover with a sad look on his face, and the background seems to be a wooden wall of a house. The picture uses darker colors to make everything look a bit glum and depressing. I think the photographer made this photo during the morning because the lighting seems to be like a foggy morning. In the picture it seems like the man is sitting on a chair and mourning about something. Comments are closed.
|
AnalyzeUse this guide if you are stuck on what to write about: Archives
March 2022
Categories
All
|