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 by the end of class Monday, 10/25/21. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Aidan Skelly
10/22/2021 01:19:25 pm
Critical Analysis 10/22/2021 01:23:39 pm
The image is of a rural road in organ and we see a large figure with some sort of liquid spilling out of it with police nearby. The picture is pretty warmas you can see the tall pine trees with a more washed out looking green. The water that is on the road also has a color that makes some, including me, think that the figure is bleeding. The figure itself is somewhat far away from the camera making it unclear. The majority of the space in the photo is rural land but the mass in the middle makes the viewer think and is perfectly in shot.
Connor Cruzen
10/22/2021 01:27:09 pm
The image that we see here is an elephant that looks super tired in the photo, almost exhausted. The image is using the colors of nature and allowing the color of the world to do the talking in the certain photo. The image uses solid lighting and , but to me the image is a little dark and I wish that the lighting was more normal because the photo is very warm in its current state. In the image you see the elephant , people and some vehicles. The photo does a good job at allowing the viewer to see the main point that the artist wanted you to see.
Cecile Tchandja
10/22/2021 01:27:15 pm
This is an image about how an elephant escaped from where it was being held and went on a not so successful journey because it almost caught heat stroke and had to be helped by firefighters in the area. The photo has the elephant lying passed out in the middle of the road covered in water and people around it kind of checking on it. The people in this picture are not seen very clearly and you might not even know that an elephant is in the photo unless you knew the back story. The photo makes you feel kind of like you are standing in the hot sun also watching these events occur to this animal. The colors used in this photo are mostly beige, greens, and a little blue and yellow.
Wyatt Fincke
10/22/2021 01:27:27 pm
The image looks like it’s of an elephant that escaped from a zoo and collapsed in the middle of the road and had been shot by a person who thought it was threatened. I now know that the elephant escaped from its ranch after trampling its owner to death and was running for hours, it was then tranquilized but was about to die so the fire department sprayed it down to help save its life. It’s using very bright light set up, using the sun, to give a true effect of how it was out there and for you to feel what the elephant must have been feeling. The local sheriff department is here and looks like it’s a small-town sheriff department that must have not known what to do when elephants escape and are roaming their town.
Alex Lambert
10/22/2021 01:28:10 pm
The atmosphere of the image feels really hazy. You can see the heat in the air and what solidifies this is the trail of water behind the unconscious elephant. It makes it look like the sun is baking and drying out everything so you feel how the elephant feels. In general the picture is very warm and does a good job of setting the scene to make you feel like you're in it. It makes you feel like you're in the sheriff's position on the hot summer day.
Max Lloyd
10/22/2021 01:29:32 pm
This image contains an elephant and a lot of people. There are a bunch of cars there and what appears to be water surrounding and on the elephant. There are a bunch of warm colors in this image and a very light setting. The elephant seems to be dead with a lot of water on it, there are many bystanders too. Again the lighting is more warm than it is cool.
Kiara Dwivedi
10/22/2021 01:34:57 pm
This image shows an elephant on the road, covered in water. Sheriff cars line up along the road and people watch. I see many colors including greens and yellow in the picture; the yellow grass on the side of the road makes me think of heat. The shadows and light in the blue sky make me think of the midday sun. The angle of the photograph is not from a bird’s eye view but it does look elevated. This image is pleasing to look at because there are many things catching your eye. The focal point is the car in the front and I saw the brown truck second.
Kate Philbin
10/23/2021 12:19:18 pm
In the picture I see an elephant laying down in the road with a truck, a car, and people watching beside it. I am wondering what had happened? I see what looks like water on the ground so I am wondering if the people are cooling the elephant off. I was worried at first that it might have been blood but if you look closely you can see a person with a hose or maybe a bucket, I can't tell. I don't know where they would get all the water from. The first thought that crossed my mind was that the elephant had fallen off a truck that was transporting it somewhere. Maybe the truck in front of it possibly. They could be giving the elephant a cool off before loading it back into the truck. Or maybe the animal was just lying down in the middle of the road and people wanted to help. The only reason why I don't think it is just a wild elephant is that the background doesn't look like an elephant's habitat. I think the elephant either escaped somehow from somewhere or fell out of a vehicle.
Breana Toohey
10/23/2021 09:13:39 pm
This image shows an elephant in the middle of the road that is covered in water. There are cops/police surrounding the elephant. The color of this image is warm and with what is occurring in this photograph, I think that this matches the mood very well. The elephant is overheated and this image represents that from its warm tones. The image is showing bright sunlight and it is a very beautiful day outside. In this image there is a lot of green and yellow giving it a desert-like vibe. There are a lot of people and cars in this image along with many trees, a sign, and a couple houses. This also gives a very rural setting with the old houses and the middle of nowhere look.
Howard Hu
10/24/2021 06:41:08 pm
This is a picture taken in the countryside. People are gathering in the middle of the road for a small exhausted renegade elephant. The photo was taken in old times due to the appearance of the car. The photograph was made in color with a finely tuned sensibility for dystrophic and idyllic events. The gloomy choice of color in this photograph gives me a sad feeling. The color collaborates well with the story in the picture in which the elephant is sadly collapsed in the middle of the road. The lightning is also more of a dark shadow.
Zaara Rehman
10/25/2021 01:03:32 pm
When I first saw this image I thought the elephant fell off the truck and blood was running down. When I look even closer the colors are very warm which made me think the water which I originally thought was blood made it look like blood. The colors did throw me off of what I was originally thinking. It does turn out that the blood is actually water and that the elephant was dehydrated and they were spraying it with water.
Veronica Lobo
10/29/2021 01:28:08 pm
By looking at this image, I can kind of see it’s about an elephant that's on the ground which I believe is dead and there are people trying to move it off the ground for the people to be able to use the road. The image is using warm colors and I think it's like that due to the time it was taken, you would think that it's from the old times because as you can see, in the picture, there is a sheriff car, which is a major hint as to when this was taken, which by the way was taken in the year 1978. Not only is the sheriff's car old, but also if you see closely you can see the way they dressed. I would say that it's not the most pleasant image but it's not bad, I mean, it's somewhat interesting. I'm also pretty sure the rule of thirds is being used in this image, on the left side the poles are almost directly on the line and the sheriff's car in the bottom right corner is also very close to being on the intersection. Comments are closed.
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