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's post, it will not be graded.
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Payton Down
9/6/2017 11:12:01 am
Lucas Prado
9/6/2017 11:16:24 am
This photo includes a family with a baby overlooking a dam on a cloudy afternoon. Their clothing and hairstyle puts this shot in the time of around the 70s - 80s. The family includes a father in blue, a mother to his right in white, and their kids and baby, who is in a crib. The rest of the landscape is desert, mostly reddish with no foliage.
Jordan Bell
9/6/2017 11:23:46 am
This is an image of people standing on what appears to be a dam or some kind of wall. The people in the photo are looking over the edge while a baby in a basket sits behind them. This photograph uses dark and neutral or earthy colors such as grays, faded blues, terracottas, and tan. The lighting in the photo seems to be natural and cloudy. In the background of the image you can see reddish brown hills. There are people in the image on the wall wearing casual clothes.
Will Mauldin
9/6/2017 11:24:44 am
The first thing that stands out to me in this photo is the baby in the crib on the street behind his family. It’s kind of a random thing to observe in a picture, and makes me wonder what kind of parent leaves their kid in the street while you look over a dam. Why not just hold your child? I see some older kids leaning over the edge to see what’s below. Why can’t the baby look over the edge? I think in a way this photo can possibly represent the coming of age and how the older you get, the less protected you become, and you gain the free will to take a peek over the edge, rather than being completely hidden from it.
Matthew Weiss
9/6/2017 11:28:28 am
The image seems to be located at the hoover dam. It shows people stretched over the wall, looking down into the canyon area. The Sky is full of clouds that seem to take mask the light from the area. No sunlight is let through and the sun isn’t shown in the image. It seems to have been taken right before or after a storm. However, given that nothing is wet, it was taken before the storm, if there was one at least. The thing that really sticks out as odd and peculiar, is the crib that sits in the forefront of the image. The baby inside of the crib is sitting up and staring at the camera while maybe crying.
Brandon Collins
9/6/2017 11:28:41 am
In this photograph it shows what looks like the Hoover Dam.There are dark clouds above the dam indicating the potential of rain.The time seems to be around spring or summer midday possibly, hard to tell with the clouds. Year is around late 80s early 90s.People are at the top looking at the part where the water comes out. 9/6/2017 11:28:57 am
This image is depicting what seems to be a very large dam that could perhaps be the Hoover Dam. The day is overcast. Therefore, the colors featured in the image are darker than what they would be if the sun was shining. The color scheme seems to conform to the rock formation featured in the background, with the concrete of the dam colored similarly. Families are lined up along the railing to see downwards. One particular family, the focal point of this image, contains many children. They are attempting to see the sight of the dam. In order to do this, they placed their infant child in a small crib and put him in the street.
Parker Brown
9/6/2017 11:30:18 am
The image looks like it might be at the Hoover Dam, but it could maybe be some other big dam. In the image there are people looking over the dam, and there is a baby in a crib behind them. The colors used in the image are bright and happy to make it seem like a happy picture. The clouds are very dark and shadowed to make us assume that a storm is about to happen. The people look like they are ignoring the baby, and so it looks like he is crying.
Annie Mosis
9/6/2017 11:35:49 am
Claire Williams
9/6/2017 11:40:30 am
This image is depicting people standing over the edge of a dam looking down at the inside of it. The closest people in the image look like a family with two parents and four kids looking over the edge, with their young baby in a playpen off to the side. It looks like a cloudy day, so the sky is a grey blue color, and the hills are a light brown color in the background. The lighting is not very bright because of the cloudy weather, but it is clear enough to see the image perfectly without any darkness. The spectators look very interested in what is down at the bottom of the dam. They might be passing through as travelers, or are interested to see how it looks when it is empty before the storm comes and starts filling with water. 9/6/2017 11:55:59 am
The place that the picture was taken in seems like a tourist space. The weather in this place, is cloudy and dark. There are adults, kids, and even a baby. Most of the people are looking over the edge at something. The setting is probably a dam or something similar.
Kylie Bruehler
9/6/2017 09:50:10 pm
This appears to be an image of different people at a tourist attraction. There are many people leaning over the side of a wall and looking down into the bottom. This to me looks as if it is a dam or some kind hydroelectric power plant. Nearest to the camera, there is a couple looking down into the dam and near them is a baby. The baby is off to the side in a crib and is the only thing away that the picture is being taken. The baby is looking directly to the photographer. The people nearest to the baby might be the baby’s family. It is also possible that the baby could be the photographer’s. Maybe the photographer wanted for the baby to be the subject of the image with the surrounding area as a background.
Naty Orquin
9/8/2017 12:28:52 pm
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