Today you will be writing about this image by artist Zora Murff. It is from a project titled Corrections. 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's post, it will not be graded.
Below is a project statement written by Murff about his body of work, Corrections: From 2012 to 2015, I worked as a Tracker for Linn County Juvenile Detention and Diversion Services in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As a Tracker, I provided services to youths who were convicted of crimes, adjudicated, and subsequently ordered to complete probation. Juveniles in my charge were asked to comply with services which may include: electronic monitoring, therapies, drug screening, and community service; it was my responsibility to have continual contact with them to ensure these expectations are met. Tracking and other similar community-based services are being increasingly used as an alternative to detention facilities. These services, which allow juveniles to stay in their homes, show a higher rate of success than strict incarceration. Although community-based services are built to foster a collaborative relationship between juveniles and service providers, attaining the actualization of teamwork becomes problematic when juveniles feel that they have done nothing wrong, are victims of circumstance, or do not fully understand why they have committed a crime. The system has been put in place to provide rehabilitation, but it is far from being a straightforward process. Many influences outside of the youths' control such as education, socioeconomic status, and race all play a role in whether or not a youth reoffends - all of these factors possessing the propensity to lead them to extended periods of incarceration in the juvenile system or to involvement with the criminal justice system as an adult. By reconsidering the role that I played in the lives of the kids I worked with, I began to acknowledge the burden that comes with tasking young men and women with continued complicity. My stance as a consequence kept our relationships in a state of flux ranging from stable to tenuous – a constant motion mirroring the discord that develops between the system's intentions and outcomes. Through employing ideas of anonymity, voyeurism, and introspection, Corrections is an examination of youth experience in the system, the role images play in defining someone who is deemed a criminal, and how the concepts of privacy and control may affect their future. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Catherine Clausewitz
9/28/2017 09:40:35 am
This image is of a boy on a track. Everything is in a blur except for the boy and the area of the track he is standing on. He looks to be about 15 or 16. The photo has a very washed out look to it, but the boy doesn’t look washed out at all. The boy looks very muscular and athletic. He is wearing a black shirt that looks like he rolled up the sleeves and has some kind of image or logo on it, black basketball shorts that hit right above his knee, white ankle socks, black sandals, and ankle tracker and a bright neon yellow bracelet.
Andi Feik
9/28/2017 09:41:04 am
This is an image of a teenager standing on what looks to be a track and a football field in the background. The colors are mostly green and dark red. The lighting seems to be like it’s dark outside and it’s about to rain. In the image there is a person and the background a football field. In this image the person’s body is facing us but he is looking back at the football field. 9/28/2017 09:41:21 am
This image is of a teenage juvenile delinquent wearing a tracker on his ankle (as well as socks and sandals, a terrible mistake), walking on a track next to a football field. The image is using very cool and gloomy colors such as brown, dark green, gray, and black to symbolize the hardship the boy is going through. The lighting in the image is very dull and semi-dark due to the cloudy skies. The objects in the image include a teenager, an ankle tracker, a field goal post, a track, trees, some houses in the background, and a field. In this image, a juvenile is looking out towards the field while walking on the track, perhaps to someone or something. 9/28/2017 09:42:54 am
This picture shows a teenager standing on a track looking back towards a football field. Brown and green are the most plentiful colors, but other dark colors detail the scene. The lighting looks natural, with a lack of studio lights. On the football field there’s a goal post and a line of houses and trees behind it, and the boy is wearing a tracker above his socks and sandals. He is at a standstill with the top half of his body turned around, gazing towards the goalpost. 9/28/2017 09:43:42 am
The image is a portrait a young man, alone, standing on a dirt path on the edge of a football field. The teen is wearing a tracking anklet, and staring wistfully at the football field, his face turned away from the camera to look at the field, hiding his identity. The scene colors are the main contributing factor to the message of the image. The image lacks any bright colors whatsoever. Everything from the sky to the cloths that he is wearing is muted and not vibrant. The man looks at an out of focus field goal in the background. 9/28/2017 09:45:51 am
This image is a picture of a boy in a worn down track next to a football field. The colors that are being used are green, dark green, red and a bit of white. It is day so lighting is good because of natural light. There is a football touchdown pole and a body of a man but he turning away so his face doesn't show. There are also some white houses in the background. I think what is happening is that he is looking at the touchdown pole and remembering all the touchdowns he has made.
melody umsted
9/28/2017 09:46:07 am
This image is of a teenage boy standing on a track. He is facing the camera but has turned his head and torso in such a way that he is looking backwards and you cannot see his face. There is a tracker on his ankle. He is wearing a black shirt with the sleeves pushed up, black gym shorts, and black slides. In the background there is a field goal, some trees, and some houses. The image is cold because it is cloudy outside.
Kaitlyn Evans
9/28/2017 09:46:24 am
Critical Analysis #3
Pedro Mejido
9/28/2017 09:47:47 am
The picture is of a young muscular man with socks,sandals,shorts,sleeveless shirt, and an ankle bracelet standing on the track next to footbfallield. The image has a dark and gloomy lighting the picture was probably taken early in the morning. The photographer used a shallow depth of field and the picture is mostly concentrated on the young man. The image is interesting because the young man looks like he’s staring off into the distance, is he staring at people playing football, is he staring at the houses, or is he is just daydreaming or remembering past events who knows. The context of the image is that this photograph was taken in a juvenile detention center, that is why the young man is wearing an ankle bracelet. The photographer made the young man stare off into the distance to mostly cover his face but also to make you feel a bit of empathy for the young man for going through the process of a juvenile detention center and not having fun. I do like the image because I like the dark gloomy atmosphere and the young man looking off into the distance. In my opinion the image was successful in catching my attention to the young man and making me think about what was the young man looking at. 9/28/2017 09:48:17 am
Julieta Vazquez Martinez
9/28/2017 08:34:04 pm
This image is portrait. There is a tall black boy in the center with short hair. He is wearing a black t-shirt and has his sleeves rolled up to his shoulders, he is also wearing black basketball shorts and black slides with white socks. He has two visible bracelets, a yellow on in his right hand, and a black ankle-tracker-bracelet in his right ankle. You can tell that he does some workout because he has muscle and you can see the veins popping out in his right hand. Looking at the opposite way of the camera, his head is tilted backwards a little bit, and he is standing as already said in the center of the image in a (what it looks like a) track of a field. This track is not very “nice” as some people would say, it isn’t really taken care of, the grass is kind of dry. In the back, you can see how the wind moves the trees, in the back there is also an unfocused football goal post. The image uses cold colors because of the season at which the image was taken, it seems to have been taken sometime during late fall/early winter, or maybe late winter. Comments are closed.
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