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--
Abby Muir
9/20/2019 12:14:58 pm
In this image, right up front you notice a police car with the door open. The color palette is fairly similar, neutral greens, grays, and blues. In the back, there is water splashed over the road and an elephant lying in the road. There are quite a few people in the background, along with another police car. It appears to be in a fairly rural setting with an unpaved road off to the side and only two buildings in sight.
chloe clark
9/20/2019 12:18:59 pm
Joel Sternfield’s image contains a road which seems to be in a fairly rural area. Down the road, there are a couple sheriff cars collected around an elephant that is laying in the middle of the road. There are people crowded around the scene, maybe officers or bystanders. The scene is bright in terms of lighting, it is just daylight. There is a liquid of some kind spilling from around the elephant. There is an empty sheriff car toward the front of the road.
Natha Harrison
9/20/2019 12:26:47 pm
The image shows an elephant on a road surrounded by people and police officers. The elephant is being sprayed with water probably to ensure that the elephant is or would not become overheated as this picture was taken in the day. Besides the police officers there, there are some people watching that are mostly likely within the vicinity or may have driven upon the scene. Most of the picture is covered in a green color most likely because the possibility that this is a rural area. Because the picture was taken during the day and outside, the lighting was bright sunlight with no shadows from clouds. Since this picture looks like a rural part of the U.S., I would say the elephant escaped from somewhere and was caught by local police and was being watched until proper equipment could arrive to properly detain it.
Kellen Dukatnik
9/20/2019 12:33:18 pm
The image contains an elephant on a road, (which more than likely escaped from a nearby zoo) near a forest with multiple people trying to help the elephant. It uses colors such as grey, black, blue, white, green, colors you'd expect to find on a road next to a forest. The lighting is sunlight, on a day with no overcast giving it a feeling of summer time. The objects in the image include, trees, grass, road, a truck, a police car, an 18-wheeler, a street sign, people spectating, and an elephant getting water sprayed on it.
Ben Barlow
9/20/2019 12:40:29 pm
Exhausted Renegade Elephant by Joel Sternfield is a historic photo from his series American Prospects. This scene in particular is quite exciting because it is an example of when Sternfeld listened to police radio frequencies for interesting things to photograph. The elephant lying on the road had just recently escaped from the local zoo and emergency services quickly arrived to quarantine the situation. It looks as if the elephant had just escaped from the green pine trees and then proceeded to rest on the side of the road. The asphalt contrasts sharply with the forests of Washington behind, with what appears to be water running off in an attempt to cool the elephant off. The photograph was taken in the middle of the day with bright sunlight that exposes most of the frame.
Isabella Grossman
9/20/2019 08:33:39 pm
9/22/2019 11:29:31 am
The photo shows an elephant lying down in the middle of the road covered in water. In the foreground you can see a stopped sheriff car. This is taken in the middle of the day so all of the lighting it bright and natural. You can’t make out any faces in the image but you can tell by one of the uniforms that there is a sheriff. The elephant can be made out clearly and is seen to be tired, probably from running down the road.
Flint Rose
9/22/2019 04:53:18 pm
American Prospects is a collection of Joel Sternfeld's pieces that show his travel through America. In this one Sternfeld shows us a photo of an elephant which appears to be wet. The elephant is surrounded by people. In the grass there are a group of kids. To the right of the elephant there is what appears to be a woman giving the elephant a shower by hose. It appears to be a rural area, you can judge this by the dirt path that passes by the road towards the front. The day seems to be a clear bright sunny day, the sun would be very strong and hot on this day. Comments are closed.
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