Today you will be writing about this photograph by artist Joel Sternfeld. 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 post, it will not be graded.
If you do not finish your analysis in class, you must finish and post your analysis before class on Monday, 9/23/19. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
diego saucedo
9/20/2019 09:16:48 am
There is a house that looks like a villa, on what looks to be in somewhere in America, You can see a wrecked car on the bottom of the picture with what looks to be some kind of ruins from the house, the first thing you imagine when you see the picture is that an earthquake happened or something bad happened because theres some kind of bad tone to the picture.
Zac Isaac
9/20/2019 09:38:46 am
In this image, it looks like there was an earthquake. The earthquake made a cliff in which a car fell into. The photo is taken in the day. The image has cars, houses, mountains and a cliff. A car is destroyed because it fell off the cliff.
mj ervin
9/20/2019 09:43:57 am
The image is of a street with a house and what looks to be like the underground. The image seems to be a picture of the underground but it looks like it is just a cliff. There are some mountains in the background of the image. It looks to be like an abandoned place or like a small village. The colors on the buildings are bland and warm. The trees are palm trees and the mountain is faded in the distance. What's weird about the image is that what im guessing is underground has some trees and moss on the left. For some reason it's odd that there is a car. So im guessong that there was a crash or something happened here. I want to say it seems like their e=was a hurricane / tornado her in the past and that's why it looks like that. It even kinda looks like a crater like it was hit by a meter. There aren't any people or anyone in it. It just is like deserted.
MJ ervin
9/20/2019 09:47:21 am
their were some errors to the first paragraph
George Welch
9/20/2019 09:44:18 am
This image looks like a sinkhole formed over what looks like a hotel/convention center. The photo looks like it uses a lot of natural light. The colors are very bright. The objects in the photo include cars, buildings, and mountains in the background.
Anaya Zachery
9/20/2019 09:49:15 am
Garrett Greiner
9/21/2019 01:47:13 pm
The main subject of this image is a car that has fallen because the road has collapsed. The car is flipped upside down and you can see pipes underground that have been uncovered by the road collapsing. It sits in the middle of a dirt pile, and you can see what was under the road. On the left and right side of the collapsed area, there are lots of shrubs and grasses, some of which appear to be dead, while others appear to be alive. In the middle ground, there is a nice looking house that has trees scattered throughout. There is another car that is parked safely on the ground, just nearly missing the collapsed part of the road. Off to the right, it looks like there is a building that is partly destroyed. Since it has one side open and is located outside of the wall that surrounds the house, it might have been a garage or used for storage. In the background, you can see the beautiful mountains that are located behind the house. It uses natural lighting, as it was taken outside. It looks like the picture was taken on a cloudy day because, in the background, you can see the sky, but it looks a little more grey than usual. It has lots of green, seen in the plants and the mountains, as well as a lot of yellow, seen in the plants and the color of the buildings. There is a good amount of brown in there as well, seen in the dirt uncovered due to the collapsed road.
Elise Miles
9/22/2019 10:43:09 am
The image is of land and a caved in mountain sinkhole. There is a car buried in the caved mountain which is upside down. There are a bunch of trees on the left side of the picture. The image is using greens, browns, tans, and a bit of blues. The mountain is bluish, there are many green trees, and the buildings in the picture are tan. The lighting is pretty good, you can everything really clearly. In the picture are mountains on the top. In the middle of the picture are tan broken down buildings with an old blue car in front of them. On the bottom of the picture is the sinkhole with a car buried in it. There are pieces of trash all around buried in the bottom of the sinkhole. On the left of the picture are a bunch of trees and green plants. In the image it looks like a car crash just happened or maybe a big storm that opened up the earth.
Max
9/22/2019 11:40:33 am
Ah yes, another Joel Sternfeld image. I think the biggest question here is “why the heck is that there?!” Why is there a car at the bottom of a cliff? There are PLENTY of parking spaces/ road above. What happened here, because there is also some more damage to the buildings above the cliff. Not to mention the yellows and greens, the yellow being the sickly looking grass, and the walls of the buildings, and the greens as trees and shrubbery.
Ryan Shields
9/22/2019 12:51:40 pm
This is an image of a crashed blue car that's upside down and half buried in the rubble of a collapsed road. The image appears to be taken sometime in the 90's because the cars look to be from that time period and the scenery makes me think that the image was taken someplace in California. In the middle ground you can see a cluster of smaller yellowish tan buildings that look like they could be part of a motel, and a car parked in the small parking lot. You can also see palm trees. In the Foreground you see part of a big hill that leads up to and levels out at the road. Part of the hill has collapsed along with the road. In the rubble of the collapsed hill there’s a flipped blue car and broken pipes.You can also see some trees, rocks, grass, and some broken pipes in the foreground. In the middle ground you can see multiple smaller buildings that appear to be part of some sort of motel. You can also see some trees, most of which appear to be palm trees. In the Background you can see a big green mountains. The picture has lots of greens and earthy tones. In the image it appears to be either morning or afternoon because you can see what looks like either the last parts of a sunrise or the beginning of sunset on the big mountains in the right of the background. There are lots of shadows, epically in the foreground. There are lots of objects in this image, there are a couple cars, some buildings, some broken pipes in the pile of rubble, a hill, lots of different types of trees but mainly palm trees, some grass, and you can see the mountains in the background. In this image a car is flipped upside down in a pile of rubble and broken pipes that used to be a road.
dana salinas
9/22/2019 09:31:57 pm
The photograph by Joel Sternfeld shows a deep ravine that is surrounded by houses. It seems as if the hole weren’t even there due to how calm the picture looks. We can also see two cars, one that is flipped over and covered in debris and one parked in a parking spot. It is an odd picture because we don’t know if the ravine was there before or after construction. There are no barriers that would keep someone or something from falling down so it makes us question why there are no warning signs or rails. The photographer is using both light and dark colors; lighter colors start appear if you look at the photograph from down to up but it gets darker as you look at it from up to down. I think that the author chose this contrast of colors to portray a deeper meaning and theme.
Nathan Bond
9/23/2019 07:34:14 am
The first thing this picture makes you think is that an earthquake just recently happened, but if you look closer it looks like some time has passed this didn’t just occur. There's a blue car buried in the debris. A tan-colored building in the back to the right of the building you can see what looks to be a garage that is destroyed so we can assume the building took damage. There's another car parked by the building that’s unscathed. There are trees to the left of the photo that makes a line that leads you to the surface where the house is and then will lead you to wear the sinkhole is. Comments are closed.
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