Today you will be writing about this image by artist Holly Andres. The photograph is from her body of work titled Stories From A Short Street. Here is the artist's project statement:
STORIES FROM A SHORT STREET is a collection of eight photographs inspired by my unique experience growing up in rural Montana as the youngest of ten children. By casting a fictitious group of siblings loosely based on archetypes of my own family, each image is constructed to enact a specific moment, communicate identity through space, and depict a psychological portrait. 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. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
10/6/2017 08:19:32 am
A young girl kneels in the middle of a living room, looking towards something out of frame, with a bunch of dolls laying on the ground in front of her. The photo is comprised of mainly warm colors of brown orange, and grey, along with a bit of blue. Since it is in a house, there is artificial lighting, but there is a small window in the background providing a bit of sunlight. A picture hangs on the wall, and a piano is near the back of the room with a bird cage hanging over it. It seems like the girls was playing with her dolls, maybe giving them makeovers, but was interrupted by someone out of frame, most likely her mom. 10/6/2017 08:21:32 am
This is an image of a young girl on her knees in her living room, and appearing to be cutting out figures from a magazine. It is using very warm colors such as brown, cyan, white, green, and tan. The lighting in the image is pretty bright but it does have a slight dimness to it. The objects in the image are a girl in a blue dress, around 40 cutout images, a piano, a stool, or birdcage, a sofa, a window, scissors, an image on the wall, a wooden floor, and a magazine. In the image the girl is cutting out pictures of female models from a magazine and laying them out in front of her, and she is also looking away towards something, perhaps a parent.
Andi Feik
10/6/2017 08:22:11 am
This image is of a girl kneeling on the ground. It looks like she is cutting out people from a magazine and laying them on the ground. This image is using a lot of colors. The Majority of the colors are more cool colors. There are also some more warm color in the image. The lighting in this image is bright and makes the image look white. In the image there is a girl on the floor cutting out people from a magazine. There is also a bird cage in the background with a bird in it. In this image the girl’s eyes are looking kind of off to the side and up it looks like she could maybe be looking at her mom or another person that maybe walked in the room.
Catherine Clausewitz
10/6/2017 08:27:32 am
This image is of a little girl. She looks to be about 9 or ten. She looks to be in a living room. The decorations and furniture in the room are a piano with a very colorful stool that looks like the top is a flower, a mix between a green and brown colored couch, a painting on the wall that looks like a mountain scene of some sort, a bird cage that is gold with a bird in it and, curtains with a very victorian and royal looking pattern to them. The actual room itself has cream walls and hardwood floors that are almost a caramel looking color. This picture is mainly warm tones except for the little girl's dress and the trees outside when you look at the window. She light mainly focuses around the center of the room and the shadow is mainly near the piano.
Kaitlyn Evans
10/6/2017 08:27:52 am
Critical analysis #4 10/6/2017 08:28:33 am
The image is of a little girl in her living room with cut out images of models laying on the floor next her and a magazine which is where the images came from. The image uses a bright light which is from the lights in the house, the photographers light, and the light from outside. The little girl’s dress matches the painting of the mountain and the girl looks like she wants to be involved in the fashion industry. The photo looks mildly pleading because of the light being used in the image. The image doesn’t follow the rule of thirds and the image uses a shallow depth of field to focus more on the little girl. The image cuts off some object from the frame like for example, the couch which doesn’t show where the couch ends. The image also cuts out some of the pictures of the models and it also cuts out the piano. The photographer tries to tell us that the girl wants to be a model or fashion designer. I feel neutral about the photograph because the picture is not horrible nor is outstanding. The photograph is successful in telling us the story of the image and focusing on the little girl. 10/6/2017 08:30:39 am
This picture is about a redheaded girl in a house that is decorated with furniture. ˇhe girl is cutting out portraits of girls which look like models. She is looking up and looks sad. This photograph uses neutral colors like white and a lot of peach and sand color. There are almost no shadows here. The place is very lit up. There is a girl in the middle with a blue and white dress. There is a piano and a couch. Some paintings in the wall and a window which leads to outside which is green. The girl is cutting out models then stops and looks up.
Adriana
10/6/2017 08:30:47 am
Critical Analysis #4
Julieta Vazquez Martinez
10/6/2017 08:35:47 am
This image by Holly Andres shows a little girl of about twelve years old. She is wearing a light blue dress with a white shirt under it. She is lying on her knees and her body is straight, her hands are down on the sides and she is looking to the right upper corner (like if she was looking to an adult standing up). In the floor right next to her on the left side there are multiple women cut from magazines. Behind to the left of the girl there is a magazine and scissors close to her left hand on the floor. You can see a window behind the girl, then in the same wall there is a painting of a landscape, right behind the painting there is a couch with a kind of yellowish-goldish color. To the left of all of this, there is an old school organ with a colorful seat; right above it there is a bird in a cage.
Melody Umsted
10/10/2017 04:32:49 pm
This image is of a girl sitting on her knees in front of the couch on the floor in the living room. In the corner of the room there is a piano and above that, a bird cage. There is also a picture hanging above the couch. On the floor in front of the girl, there are pictures of people that have been cut out from a magazine. The girl is looking off at something not in the picture. Comments are closed.
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