© Joel Sternfeld Each week in class, you will write a critical analysis on a work of photographic art. An image will be published weekly on our class blog. Spend time studying the image and then write a detailed analysis of the photograph. Publish your analysis as a comment to the blog post; this comment should show the student’s name and time posted. your analysis must be posted to the original blog post in order to be graded. All analyses must be 4 paragraphs minimum, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph unless otherwise noted. Students will write eleven critical analyses per semester, and the lowest grade per semester will be dropped. On the class blog, if you look to the right you will see the word Analyze. There is a link to a handout you may download or print called your "How to See" handout. This will help you learn to write about art. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
9/1/2018 09:51:10 am
mariah podwika
9/1/2018 12:22:19 pm
There’s a house burning in the background and a firefighter is buying a pumpkin from the farmers market in the foreground. The primary color of orange is used throughout the picture. There are pumpkins, a fire truck, a fire, a lawn chair, a cinder block. There is a cloudy natural lighting because the photographer is outside. What’s happening is there is a controlled fire that they are training firefighters to put out and the guy in the front of the image is just taking a break.
clara blume
9/1/2018 12:26:43 pm
In this picture, there are a few things happening. In the foreground, there is a firefighter shopping at the McLean Farm Market. In the background, there is a house on fire with a firetruck seemingly trying to put out the fire. The smoke from the fire is mostly in the middle of the picture. The smoke goes off to the left, which means the wind is blowing in that direction. The colors are kind of muted colors, which makes the orange of the fire and the pumpkins pop. It is natural lighting because the picture is taken outside.
Eden Vogelsang
9/2/2018 08:27:42 am
In the background there happens to be a house burning. Also the fireman is at the farmers market and not tending to the fire. The main color that the picture is using is a warm orange. I feel like he uses those colors because it goes with the fall look and tone of the picture. There are some dark shadows with the smoke and the trees I feel.
Matthew Sutherland
9/3/2018 01:30:25 pm
In this picture, there is a house on fire with firemen trying to put it out in the background. In the foreground, a fireman is shopping for pumpkins at a farm market while the fire burns. There are many smashed pumpkins around the farm market. There are tables and a chair to the left of the market. The farm market has a sign that says Sweet Cider. There is a tree line in between the market and the house on fire. There’s a fence line on the right side of the picture. The picture is using a lot of orange and tan. The lighting of the picture has shadows. In the image, it looks like a fireman is buying pumpkins while a house burns in the background.
Xinyu Lei
9/3/2018 05:28:32 pm
The image is located on a barren ground where there is a farmer’s market. At the ⅔ of the ground, a line separates the picture clearly. In the portion above the ground, there is a building which is on fire. Below there is the withered grass. Pumpkins are broken, discarded, scattered in front of the farm market, where the orange, wholesome ones are lining in a queue in the farm market. A firefighter, in his withered coat, staring and picking the one he fancies, while the apricot fire is burning the cloud into ashes. It creates a weird sarcasm in the picture. It’s not a soothing sunny day. The light is greyish, and the atmosphere is very dry. It’s possible winter, cause under the natural light, only the pine trees appear to be in the color of dark green. 9/3/2018 07:37:52 pm
In this image there is a fireman at a Farmers Market looking at pumpkins, while a house is on fire in the background with a fire truck next to it. This scene is surrounded by some dead and alive trees which lets the viewer know it is probably Fall and in a secluded area. Even though the trees show that it is Fall this is also complimented by the colors of the image like orange, a dark green, brown, yellow, and the dim setting of the area. The colors also make it seem like there is a dark yet funny meaning to the picture because there is the house burning down in the dimness of Fall, but the irony of the fireman looking at the pumpkins lightens the mood with all of the brighter pumpkins and the nice looking pumpkin shack. The shading also contributes to the picture’s blend of colors while creating that scene of late fall as it moves to winter, and this makes the picture a bit more realistic. 9/3/2018 09:55:58 pm
In this image, we see a scene that is very unusual. In the front of the image, we see what looks like a patch of pumpkins however, the pumpkins in front of what looks like a farmers market are dead. Shopping in the farmers market, when you look closely, there is a firefighter. Which isn't what we would expect since behind the fence line there is a house on fire. This leads us to the conclusion that the firefighter isn't doing his job.
Troy Githinji
9/4/2018 06:30:51 am
In this picture, we see a burning house with firemen at the scene trying to extinguish it. In front of the burning house, we see a small farmer’s market with none other than a firefighter selecting a pumpkin to buy. Looking at the ground, we see many broken pumpkins inside a fence line and a cinder block in the distance. The colors being used are very earthy and cohesive. The overall Image reminds me of Autumn and the cloudy sky implies that it must have rained before this picture was taken. 9/4/2018 05:16:03 pm
The image I’m looking at takes place on a cloudy, fall day, where it seems as perhaps a firefighter neglects to help put out a fire on the house behind him. Casually, the firefighter shops at a farmers’ market while ignoring the burning house behind him. The color palette consists of fall colors with lots of oranges, browns, and dull greens. The natural lighting in the pictures helps to depict the cloudy day. Objects that stand out to me at first glance are the arrangement of pumpkins of the floor, cinder block and lined fence.
Farouk
9/13/2018 08:34:02 am
There is a blazing fire in the background the the house. The texture of the fire seems smooth. The orange hue of the fire seems similar to the pumpkins near the ‘Farm Market.’ The smoke at the end of the fire seems to blend in with the smoky grey branches of the trees and fits the atmosphere of the dark sky. There is a firefighter standing at the market while a fire is going on in the background. The green pine tree appears as black or dark green because of the dark sky, i would imagine the green in the letters of ‘Farm Market” to be the color of the tree on a sunny day. I like the shape and color of the apple on the right side of the farm market. The red seems faded dark just like all the other colors. The pumpkins on the ground are mostly smashed and the pumpkins left unharmed are in the crate neatly organized in front of the market. Some pumpkins are on the table on the left.
Sofia Galindo
9/13/2018 08:35:03 am
The first thing seen in this image is a little farmers market that sells pumpkins and other things like oranges. There are many smashed or rotten pumpkins on the ground and some cinder blocks laying around. There is a fireman shopping for pumpkins there and just browsing the market. In the background, there is an old looking house that is on fire with a firetruck next to it. The color that pops in this image is the orange in the pumpkins, oranges, and the fire. The natural lighting used in this photo is very gloomy and dull because the sky seems to be very cloudy with barely any sunlight peeking through. What’s confusing about this photo is, at first, one would think that the fireman browsing the market didn’t care about the burning house behind him, but what’s really happening is the fire going on is just a practice fire for training purposes. He is on a break, which is why he decided to check out the market and buy some pumpkins. 9/22/2018 06:05:03 pm
The image exhibits a women on a buoy in a pink dress looking down at the water out in the ocean during the day. The buoy is red and marked with the number three with a light on top which shows the women is in some sort of channel( a channel buoy is used to mark mid-channels, fairways, and offshore approach points). The picture uses a lot of blues with a little white, and then a red buoy to draw the attention of the viewer to the women who wears pink. The lighting looks as if it is afternoon or morning creating a lighter scene, and is contrasted with the shadows of the ocean. She is also gripping the buoy tightly as she stares deep down into the ocean tilting the buoy as if she were looking for something. Comments are closed.
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