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--Your analyses will be graded on:
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.”
Kurt Bliss
2/13/2020 09:29:55 am
The closed blinds, the dark and shadowy room that casts natural light and darkness all over the bookshelves and bed. It all represents the emptiness and darkness that the artist feels inside. IT represents the struggle, pain, tears that he goes through on a daily basis and how it all connects to his journey to get better.
Diego Saucedo
2/13/2020 09:31:26 am
Critical analysis
George Welch
2/13/2020 09:33:32 am
This image is of inside a room with the light coming in from the window. It uses a lot of dark and blue colors in the image. Through the window you see a lot of light coming in. The light that is coming in looks like it was probably taken during a sunrise/sunset. There are no people in the image, just the empty room.
dana s
2/13/2020 09:34:08 am
The photograph by McNair Evans seems to be of a bedroom. The room looks like a bedroom because there is a working space and a mirror near a vanity/ desk. The desk however, is very small, which would not be put in a bigger room such as a study or living room. The whole room seems gloomy and alone. There doesn’t seem a lot of activity within the room because the lights aren’t on and the only source of light is the one that is coming in from the window. The artist is using darker colors except for the reflection of the window on the wall.
Zac Isaac
2/13/2020 09:40:12 am
The image is in a room when its day but the window glare looks like it’s in the night. There is a picture of what looks like a baseball or a football team. There are a few lamps in the room. There is a mirror on the wall but you can’t see the camera. There is a picture of a map on the wall.
Garrett Greiner
2/13/2020 09:41:31 am
This is an image of a small room that might possibly have served as a small office room at a house. There is a small desk on the right hand side of the picture, and there is a lamp, some papers, a jar that holds writing utensils. There is a small bookshelf to the left of the desk, and there are a few books stacked on top of the book case. Above the bookshelf is what appears to be a framed map. There is a picture of a bunch of guys together on the desk. There is a window on the left side of the room, and the curtain has been pulled up, and the shades have been opened, and the light is shining through. The silhouette of the window appears on the wall, covering part of the mirror and the map. It uses dark colors, as the room is dark, and the only source of light is the natural light/sunlight coming through the window. In terms of colors, it uses shades of blue and orange. In the reflection of the mirror, we can see the door to this room, and we can determine that the room is small.
Ryan S.
2/13/2020 09:42:37 am
The image is of a room, most likely the artist's father’s room because you can see a group photo of guys in black and white on the desk in the bottom right. Some details are that there’s a window on the right with cloudy sunlight coming in, but it looks like the light is shining onto the back wall in a much more yellow hue. The image is using lots of greys and because it’s cloudy outside and the room is dark. Also there’s yellow-oraish colors. The lighting is dark and the light that is coming in from the window is grey and subdued most likely because it’s cloudy outside. Some objects included in the image are a desk, a black and white group photo on the desk, a book stand, a mirror, and lamp and a dresser. There's nothing happening in the image, it is more of a symbolic image than an action image.
anaya zachery
2/13/2020 09:44:49 am
MJ Ervin
2/13/2020 09:47:14 am
This image is of a room and a window with a sunset light shining through. It's used like some cool colors and then that sunsets warm colors. The lighting is kinda dark but has the lighting from the outside sunset. The objects included are a bed, some lamps, a painting and a shelf. Nothing is really happening in the image because there is nobody in the image.
Nathan Bond
2/13/2020 09:49:51 am
This is a picture of a room. There is a dresser to the left with a lamp and pictures of people. to the left of that is a window and next to the window is a frame of a map and the light of the window is shining on it. To the right of the map is a mirror that is above a stand. The stand has pictures of a sports team, a cup of pencils, a vase, newspapers, and a lamp. To the left of the stand and under the map there is a bookshelf completely filled with books.
Elise Miles
2/13/2020 09:50:26 am
This photo is of a room like a study. The colors in the image are blue, white, and yellow to show how empty it is. The lighting is bright but not at the same time. The window is light but the room itself is dark. The objects in the image are some lamps, books, and a desk. There is nothing happening in the image unless it is day.
Max
2/22/2020 02:34:20 pm
This image is of a dark room, the only light is that of a window, but the light coming from the window is for some reason orange when the light outside is a bright white. The entire room is almost a blue color. The decorations in the room are all older decorations. As I mentioned before, the lighting is extremely dark, which fits in with the theme of the photograph; “Finding who my father was after his death.”
Max (again)
2/22/2020 02:36:44 pm
(I accidentally cut it short, here's the rest) I loved this image because it reminds me of my aunt's house. She lives in Austin, and for some reason it just reminds me of that. Comments are closed.
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