Today you will be writing about this image by artist Sian Davey. The photograph is from her body of work titled Looking For Alice. We will look at some images from this series and discuss it in class before you write.
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. If you do not complete your analysis in class, you must finish it for homework before your next class on Wednesday, 10/18/17. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
elizabeth wray
10/16/2017 12:26:12 pm
This image is apart of a series called “Looking for alice.” It is about a down syndrome girl named Alice. She is a young girl, probably around four years of age. In this image, she is toward the background looking at the main focus of the image. The main focus here is a teenage girl. She has brown hair and is wearing a black dress and blue tights underneath. The girl is tanner than Alice, probably hispanic. 10/16/2017 12:26:29 pm
This image depicts a few people present in the same room. The person in the back is a four year old girl named Alice. She is the focal point of this image. The tones are earthy. Blacks and browns are present. There is no bright lighting due to the image being captured indoors. The only lighting is window lighting. These four people seem to be enjoying themselves, taking pictures and smiling. However, Alice appears to be left out of the activity. She is viewing these festivities from the perspective of an outsider.
payton down
10/16/2017 12:29:54 pm
This photo is of a four people hanging out in a room and taking photos of each other. They are girls of all ages and the colors being used are neutral bedroom tones, and the clothing of the subject is darker than anyone else's. Its bright from a window light maybe but it's indoors and not a set up. In the photo it looks like one of the girls is taking a photo of the other one. The other two are just standing in the background. Alice the smallest girl is staring off into space.
payton
10/16/2017 12:31:18 pm
This photo is of a four people hanging out in a room and taking photos of each other. They are girls of all ages and the colors being used are neutral bedroom tones, and the clothing of the subject is darker than anyone else's. Its bright from a window light maybe but it's indoors and not a set up. In the photo it looks like one of the girls is taking a photo of the other one. The other two are just standing in the background. Alice the smallest girl is staring off into space.
Annie Mosis
10/16/2017 12:35:56 pm
In this image you can see a girl in a black dress with blue leggings and fishnet socks over them. Her hair is curled and it looks to be turqoise at the end. And their are two ladies taking pictures of her. They're in a room with white walls a wooden door and there seems to be clutter in the background.In the background there's a little girl, this girl is named Alice. She is wearing a teal sweater and a grey skirt with animals on the bottom of them. She also has peach tights on. She looks isolated and alone in this picture. The lighting in this picture is from natural light from the windows. I think in this picture that the girl in the black dress is getting ready for a dane or some formal event.
Brandon Collins
10/16/2017 12:37:38 pm
The image is of four girls in a room three of the girls seem to be having fun while the fourth girl, which is the youngest one, looks like she feels left out. The image is using a lot of plane colors and some dark colors. The image could have these colors because there is bright window light going into the room. There are no specific objects in focus other than the four year old girl named Alice.
Will Mauldin
10/16/2017 12:38:52 pm
This image is depicting a few young girls standing in a room. I’m assuming they’re sisters. One of them, whom I’m guessing is the oldest, is spraying the middle daughter with perfume. They appear to be getting ready for an event, based on the outfit the oldest girl is wearing. I see the youngest girl in the middle, and she is the only person in full focus in the photo. She appears to be looking up at her older sister with curiosity. It seems like Alice looks up to them a lot. There is a lot of whites and warmer colors being used in this photo, giving it a gentle tone.
Jordan Bell
10/16/2017 12:50:59 pm
In this photograph, by Sian Davey, pictures four people in a messy neutral colored room. The little girl, Alice, is the only subject that is totally infocus, in the middle of the frame and looking directly at the camera. The two older girls who are closer to the camera are not in focus or paying attention to Alice. The image is closer to being underexposed with the main light coming through a window. In the image, the girls seem to be playing around and have smiles on their faces. However, Alice is not smiling and seems to be confused and distant from the action.
Parker Brown
10/17/2017 06:38:59 pm
I think the image is a picture of a girl spraying perfume on another girl, while another person is also taking the girls picture with a phone. There is also a little girl in the back staring straight at the camera. The picture might be of two girls having a sleepover at one of their houses, and they are leaving the little girl out. There is a lot of shadows being used in a lot of places. The picture has a lot of white colors, but the shadows in the picture make the image seem not very bright.
Claire Williams
10/17/2017 07:14:18 pm
This image is of a young teen girl combing through her hair with her friends, a younger sibling watching from the side, a lady admiring her, and some other lady taking a photograph of her on her phone. The main colors being used are black, blue, white, and grey. This makes this image on the cold temperature spectrum. The lighting seems to be just a bit underexposed and there are a few small shadows towards the top of the image. It looks like the girl is maybe getting ready to go out somewhere and her family is taking pictures of her.
Matthew Weiss
10/17/2017 09:50:27 pm
The image is from a series by Sian Davey where she photographed her daughter Alice, who has down syndrome. She created this to show how Alice was just as much a part of their family as anyone else is, and how alice is just as much an individual, as everyone else. In this photo, Alice is in the background, behind the others, but she is the only person in focus. The photo has alice towards the back of the room, looking at her sisters, but still focuses in on Alice looking at her sisters taking a picture of each other
Lucas Prado
10/17/2017 10:19:05 pm
This image includes four girls in what looks like a bedroom, with pillows strewn about. It includes Alice and three other girls; Alice has a blue sweater, a white skirt with different colored animals, and long red socks on while standing towards the background. She also has a bit of a frown on her face, while the other girls are smiling. The main girl in focus has on a black dress with long, blue socks, holding a bottle of perfume and spraying the third girl. The third girl has a white shirt and notably red hair. The last girl is out of frame, with her arm and part of hair in frame, taking a photo of the girl in the black dress with her phone. The only lighting in the room is the light from the open window.
Gilly Thompson
10/18/2017 10:53:20 am
This photograph by Sian Davey is one of the many photos in her collection called “Looking for Alice” . These photos were taken to show what her child’s life was like and how Sian was effected by her child’s disability. In the photo there is an older girl, probably teens or older. She is wearing a black dress that is mesh at her shoulders. Under her dress she's wearing blue tights with a fish netting tights over it. Her hair is curled. It appears that at the bottom of her wavy hair it's dyed a blue-green color at the tips. Someone off camera but has their arm in the image is taking a photo of the older girl on her iphone. Another girl is very blurry peeking gover looking at the phone. None of the girls are in Focus except Alice and the background, which is kind of messy. Behind the older girl it looks like some clothes and a pair of shoes. To the right behind the girl peeking over at the phone there is a door with a towel hanging over the door. In the photo it looks like the older girl was getting ready for something. Alice being the only girl in focus almost looks confused as she looks at the other girls. Alice is wearing red tights, a dress with animals on the bottom of it and a gray button up sweater over it. The gray sweater has a white and red pattern on the bottom of it.
Kylie Bruehler
10/18/2017 06:15:46 pm
This is a photograph of a group of women in a room and a little girl is standing in alone in the room watching the women. One of the women appears to be taking a picture with a phone camera either of herself or the girl in front of her. The girl looks to be a teenager, smaller and younger than the other women in the room. The younger girls is praying something out of a bottle onto one of the other woman’s neck, possibly perfume. The woman and the girl are out of focus, but the little girl standing in the back of the room is in focus. The little girl might be the main focus of the picture. She is standing away from the girl and the woman but she is observing all that they are doing. The image might tell us something about curiosity and youth. Comments are closed.
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