Each week, we will write a critical analysis on a work of photographic art. An image will be published weekly on our class blog. Spend time studying the image and then write a detailed analysis of the photograph. Publish your analysis as a comment to the blog post; this comment should show the student’s name, time posted, and word count. The analysis must be posted to the original blog post in order to be graded.
All analyses must be 4 paragraphs minimum, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph unless otherwise noted. Students will write eleven critical analyses per semester, and the lowest grade per semester will be dropped. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
This is image is of a pumpkin patch with smashed pumpkins and house on fire in the background with firetrucks. The image is using warmers colors because it during fall time. The lighting is sort of cloudy and kind of dark. In the pumpkin patch there are a bunch of smashed pumpkins. In the pumpkins patch there’s also a building that says Mclean Farm Market. Near the building there is a man who is a firefighter who is shopping. All of this is taking place in the foreground. In the background there is an old yellow and green house. The house is on fire, there are firetrucks trying to put out the huge flames. 8/26/2017 10:53:42 am
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Catherine Clausewitz
8/26/2017 01:26:04 pm
The image is of a pumpkin patch with a burning house behind it. At first glance my eye immediately goes to all of the bright oranges in the screen or the fire and pumpkins. They have very bright oranges, pastel blues and grays, forest greens and dark reds. You can’t really tell what time of day it is in the photo but, if I had to guess I would probably say sometime in the morning. It’s very cloudy so you can’t really tell what time of day it is just that it’s sometime in autumn and the weather looks kind of muggy.
Pedro Mejido
8/27/2017 10:50:32 am
This picture shows a small farm market selling pumpkins while a house is on fire in the background. There is one firefighter in the picture, the firefighter is buying a pumpkin in the farm market. The picture uses warm colors like orange because theres a fire is in the background. The lighting of the photo is a light gray and there are some smashed pumpkins and some undamaged pumpkins. There is a fire in a house in the background and a firefighter buying a pumpkin. The picture looks good because of the warm colors it is using and giving the sense of the autumn season.
Melody Umsted
8/27/2017 12:20:22 pm
This photo is of a little market and a burning house. There are smashed pumpkins and dead trees. The market and pumpkins are in the foreground and the burning house is in the background. There is a firefighter browsing a stack of pumpkins in front of the market. It is cloudy. The picture is cold, with touches of warm colors like the fire, pumpkins, and the fireman’s jacket.
Estefan Zorrilla
8/27/2017 03:21:16 pm
This photograph is of a somewhat destroyed pumpkin market with a building on fire in the background. Immediately, this photograph demands attention because of the bright colors in the picture.The picture has bright orange because of the pumpkins and fire. Apart from the bright colors, it also has dark colors like grey because of the smoke. Some more dark colors are a light brown of the trees and some grass. It is also feels gloomy because of the lighting. The sky is cloudy so its all one mushy grey color. There are some people in this image, there is a firefighter tending to the fire and a man with a yellow coat in the market holding a pumpkin. I think what is happening in the image is that the firefighter is trying to get rid of the fire while the man is trying to save the remaining pumpkins.
Julieta Vazquez Martinez
8/27/2017 08:40:32 pm
In this photo by Joel Sternfeld, we see an autumn scene. In a first plane we see on the left middle center of the photo a farm market called McLean (you could say that it was a sign not done by a professional), they sell pumpkins and some smashed ones are scattered through the bottom right side of the photo. A firefighter is buying some pumpkins, which is very ironic since in the back we have a house in fire, with a fire crane and more firefighters trying to stop the fire. We only see calid colours because of the season.
Dylan Pegg
8/28/2017 09:19:13 am
In the picture, we see a fireman shopping at a local farmer's market while a house is burning behind him. Warm colors such as orange and brown are present in the barren trees and crushed pumpkins. It creates an ominous look when combined with the cloudy grey sky and natural lighting. 8/28/2017 04:22:30 pm
In the image, there’s a house on fire with threes on the side as a background. There is a farm market with pumpkins and a man looking at the pumpkins and not doing anything about the house on fire. The colors that they’re using are orange, grey, green and a little of red, this are warm because it's fall. There is a man outside the market who doesn't seem to care about the house on fire. There are firefighters outside the house trying to blow out the fire. At the corner of the image there’s some smashed pumpkins. The photograph was taken from a high point, because you are able to see the tall trees and the fire of the house. The photograph has asymmetry, the threes, the pumpkins, the house and the threes have different sizes. The object does not fill the image, the market is on one side of the photograph while the pumpkins fill the other side, the house, the fire truck and the threes cover the background. The negative place is the house on fire and the smashed pumpkins, the positive space is the man looking at the pumpkins.The story of the image is the house being on fire and the man not really caring about the house. 8/28/2017 06:26:36 pm
John Steinfeld's image depicts a field of broken pumpkins with a firefighter at a pumpkin stand and a burning house in the background. The picture uses muted versions of orange, gray, and dark green in it’s depiction of the pumpkin patch. The colors that exist are uniform every time they appear: for example the same shade of dark green is used for almost all the greens in the photo with very little variations. This holds true across the oranges and grays as well. The image appears to be of a firefighter leaving the scene of the fire to go shop for pumpkins.
kaitlyn evans
9/11/2017 05:33:47 pm
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