Each week in class, you 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 and time posted. your 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. On the class blog, if you look to the right you will see the word Analyze. There is a link to a handout you may download or print called your "How to See" handout. This will help you learn to write about art. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
mariah podwika
9/1/2018 12:20:58 pm
There’s a house burning in the background and a firefighter is buying a pumpkin from the farmers market in the foreground. The primary color of orange is used throughout the picture. There are pumpkins, a fire truck, a fire, a lawn chair, a cinder block. There is a cloudy natural lighting because the photographer is outside. What’s happening is there is a controlled fire that they are training firefighters to put out and the guy in the front of the image is just taking a break.
Farouk
9/3/2018 07:56:01 am
There is a blazing fire in the background the the house. The texture of the fire seems smooth. The orange hue of the fire seems similar to the pumpkins near the ‘Farm Market.’ The smoke at the end of the fire seems to blend in with the smoky grey branches of the trees and fits the atmosphere of the dark sky. There is a firefighter standing at the market while a fire is going on in the background. The green pine tree appears as black or dark green because of the dark sky, i would imagine the green in the letters of ‘Farm Market” to be the color of the tree on a sunny day. I like the shape and color of the apple on the right side of the farm market. The red seems faded dark just like all the other colors. The pumpkins on the ground are mostly smashed and the pumpkins left unharmed are in the crate neatly organized in front of the market. Some pumpkins are on the table on the left.
Sofia Galindo
9/3/2018 11:46:23 am
The first thing seen in this image is a little farmers market that sells pumpkins and other things like oranges. There are many smashed or rotten pumpkins on the ground and some cinder blocks laying around. There is a fireman shopping for pumpkins there and just browsing the market. In the background, there is an old looking house that is on fire with a firetruck next to it. The color that pops in this image is the orange in the pumpkins, oranges, and the fire. The natural lighting used in this photo is very gloomy and dull because the sky seems to be very cloudy with barely any sunlight peeking through. What’s confusing about this photo is, at first, one would think that the fireman browsing the market didn’t care about the burning house behind him, but what’s really happening is the fire going on is just a practice fire for training purposes. He is on a break, which is why he decided to check out the market and buy some pumpkins.
Reagan
9/3/2018 04:31:36 pm
Nothing is ever what it seems. You may see a house burning and a field of pumpkins vandalized, but what i see is that only one tree still has it’s green bean leaves and how the sky surrounding the house is a blob of grey. Some people look at this photo and see hate, but I see that every bad thing has a good outcome. As the house is burning and the pumpkins slowly rotting away you see a figure, maybe a neighbor or a firefighter, this person is carrying the last good pumpkin in the field and is about to pay for it. No matter rain, hail, or snow the sun will always come back.
Hasan Ehsan
9/3/2018 04:59:48 pm
Xinyu Lei
9/3/2018 05:26:51 pm
The image is located on a barren ground where there is a farmer’s market. At the ⅔ of the ground, a line separates the picture clearly. In the portion above the ground, there is a building which is on fire. Below there is the withered grass. Pumpkins are broken, discarded, scattered in front of the farm market, where the orange, wholesome ones are lining in a queue in the farm market. A firefighter, in his withered coat, staring and picking the one he fancies, while the apricot fire is burning the cloud into ashes. It creates a weird sarcasm in the picture. It’s not a soothing sunny day. The light is greyish, and the atmosphere is very dry. It’s possible winter, cause under the natural light, only the pine trees appear to be in the color of dark green. 9/3/2018 08:34:05 pm
When you look at this the image seems very ironic. The image depicts a fire in the background with a firefighter just buying a pumpkin. The colors are very dark and I associate this with negative or sad thoughts. The lighting seems to be natural and on a cloudy day outside.
Hannah Growney
9/4/2018 12:09:16 pm
This is an image of a house on fire, amd smashed pumpkins in the foreground. There are mostly browns and greens, but there is some bright orange in the fire and the pumpkins. Where the photo was taken it is cloudy. There are firemen, pumpkins, and a house on fire. What is happening in this image is a practice fire for the firemen.
Paolo Hernandez
9/4/2018 12:10:59 pm
In this picture there is a fireman getting pumpkins while there is a house on fire in the background. There is smoke coming from the fire of the house. Also in this picture there is only one tree with leaves while the others don't have trees at all. There is also some fire fighters trying to put out the fire while that one firefighter that is getting pumpkins is not helping at all.
Campbell Streak-Jensen
9/4/2018 02:39:18 pm
This image is of firefighters trying to stop a house fire. There is a firefighter possibly on break getting some pumpkins at the front of the picture. The colors of the fire and the smashed pumpkins go well together. There are three firefighters and one is buying pumpkins. There are smashed pumpkins on the ground in front of the scene. 9/4/2018 03:53:33 pm
The photograph of the seemingly ironic and lazy fireman going pumpkin shopping with a blazing fire burning a house in the background makes you question what is happening in the photograph. Though there are no bright colors in the photograph the lighting is good and it is pleasing to see because it is very ironic.
Paul Borrego
9/4/2018 06:51:06 pm
This is a image of a firefighter picking pumpkins in autumn while a fire is raging behind him. The photo is mostly warm colors because of the season but some evergreen trees are dark green. The photo is mostly dark being outside on a cloudy day. In the image there is a building on fire in the back and a farmers market in front, both surrounded by grass and some trees in between them. In the back a building is burning with firefighters trying to takedown the fire while a firefighter in the front is picking pumpkins like he doesn’t have a care in the world.
Andrea Gonzalez
9/5/2018 04:08:07 am
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Jack Waters
9/5/2018 09:40:50 am
This picture shows a very sad scene. As you can see due to there being no leaves, halloween has passed, this means that no one is going to buy pumpkins. The man who owns that house that we can see in the back did not sell enough pumpkins to pay for everything he needed. He sold so little that he will not be able to survive the winter. Knowing this he set his house on fire, smashed a bunch of pumpkins and left, never to be seen again. The firefighter knows this and that the others have the fire under control so he is taking a pumpkin. 9/5/2018 11:35:51 am
In the picture there is a firefighter in the farm market picking up pumpkins. In the background there is a house on fire. The picture is took on a cloudy day because the entire sky is white. Tree leaves are gone indicates the time period the photo is taken—winter, which make sense because everything is dry and easily catch on fire in winter. The color of the image is bright such as orange pumpkins, fire and a bright winter sky. There are a bunch of details in this image, especially the farm market. We can know the owner of this market might be McLean and besides pumpkins it probably sells apple cider also. Comments are closed.
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