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.”
Catherine Clausewitz
4/13/2018 09:22:51 am
This photo is of a boy. He looks to be about fifteen or sixteen and is wearing a polo shirt that is red and white striped. His pants are khaki and he is wearing a brown belt and a watch on his left wrist. His hair looks to be a dark brown and is cut short and clean. He is tan but you can’t really see his facial features because he has a shadow over his face. From the boy all the way to the right edge of the photo everything is in focus. 4/13/2018 09:26:44 am
This is an image of a teenage boy standing in a dark room and seemingly doing nothing besides staring at the ground. The colors the image is using are very dark and dreary, such as maroon and gray, which gives the image a very gloomy vibe. The lighting in the image is very dark with many dark shadows, and there is very little light coming in through the windows. The objects in the image include, a boy, a polo, khaki pants, a belt, a door, a shirt hanging from the door, a dresser, a desk, a lamp, a bookshelf, books, a window, a ball-like object, and a wall. In the image, the boy just seems to be standing in his dark room that was very little light in it while being covered by shadows and staring off into the great expanse of his floor.
Julieta Vazquez Martinez
4/13/2018 09:31:41 am
This is an image by McNair Evans of a boy. This is not a portrait because the boy is not in the center and you cannot see his face clearly. He is around fourteen years old and he is standing against the narrow light coming from the window looking down to the left. He is wearing a red polo shirt with a khaki pants and a belt and a watch as accessories. The setting is indoors in a room that could potentially be the subject’s bedroom. 4/13/2018 09:32:49 am
This image is about a boy in a dark room that is dressed nicely. It seems that you cannot seem to make out his facial expression. He is inside in what you expect a normal kids room would look like. The room contains a desk soccer ball, closet, lamp and some binders. There is some towels hanged in the closet which is a bit odd because its not clothes but nothing out of the ordinary.
Adriana Vazquez
4/13/2018 09:36:48 am
This image is of a boy that looks to be around fourteen or fifteen. He is wearing a white and red striped polo with khaki pants and a brown belt. The boy is in his bedroom looking down as the sun comes in through the window. Behind him, there is a desk with a lamp and what looks like a tablet. On the same wall, there are book shells hanging with books in them. On the other side of the bedroom, there is a furniture and a door. You can not see the face of the kid because of the shadows.
Andi Feik
4/13/2018 11:09:03 am
This is an image by McNair Evans from their series Confessions For A Son. This is an image of a boy in a room.This image has some bright colors but the overall lighting is dark. In this image, the boy is standing near the door and is facing forward looking down at the ground. In the back of this image are a desk, dresser, door, towels, soccer ball, and some books. 4/15/2018 10:46:15 am
The picture is of a young man in his bedroom. The room has shelves of books which also holds an orange cup and a soccer ball. There are towels hanging on the doors of the room and light coming from the window. The light of the window makes the face of the young man darker because he’s facing away from the window. The young man is looking down at the floor of the room as if it were his last time seeing the room.
Melody Umsted
4/15/2018 11:48:40 am
This picture is of a boy standing in his bedroom. The boy is wearing a red and white striped shirt and khaki pants with a belt. He has his head turned to one side, hidden in a shadow. The lighting is coming from a window on the far left of the photo. There are lots of shadows in the room, creating a nice contrast.
Kaitlyn Evans
4/15/2018 03:07:53 pm
This picture is of a boy probably around my age. He is wearing a striped red polo shirt with khaki pants and a belt. The colors in this picture are vibrant the red and whites go really well together. The lighting in this picture is dark shadows and sunlight. What is happening in this image is that there is a boy standing in his room looking down.
chase Blackwell
4/17/2018 05:21:58 am
The photo depicts a black child/ man standing in a dark bedroom, with a shadow concealing his face. He is standing in the foreground of the picture and is slightly left of the center of the photo as well. He is illuminated by the natural light coming in from the window in the background of the picture. The rest of the photo is the messy room that he is standing in. The light coming in through the window creates a pseudo line of light for you to follow across his room and onto his face. Comments are closed.
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