Analyzing Images: Documentary/ News PhotographENC 1101

Composition I

Why Analyze Images?

0Shapes the way we feel and think about an image.

Manipulation of Photographs

0Staging Images0Altering Images0Selecting Images or Parts0Mislabeling Images0Constructing Images

How to Analyze ?

0Analyze context.0 Photographers purpose and context in making photo0 Original context for displaying photograph0 Cultural contexts for interpreting photo

Questions to Ask About Context?

0What was the photographers intention?0What’s the historical, cultural, social and political

context in which the photo was taken?0Where was it viewed?0How is your impression different than others?0What assumptions does this image bring to you?

Immediate Impact?

0What words come to mind when viewing the image?0What’s the mood of the image?0What is the photograph trying to get you to feel, think,

or see?

Strategies

0Examine people in portraits0People in scenes0Landscape or nature0Distance from subject0Angle and orientation0Framing 0Light0Focus

Continued…

0Scale, space, and shape0Use of repetition, variety, and balance0Line0Color

Taken from Allyn & Bacon pp. 171-182