Candy Cigarette Picture Analysis

Professor Zig Jackson once said, “A camera is a very powerful tool.” Photography is the way in which you express something and show it to world. People see a camera just as a tool to take pictures, but cameras go beyond taking pictures, it puts into image what can’t be described in words. As many of us have heard before, a picture is worth a thousand words; this is exactly what I feel with Candy Cigarettes by Sally Mann and Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park by Diane Arbus. These two photographs are very well known all around the world, they have characteristics that make them stand out, have a certain way they were taken and they make a statement to society.
First of Candy Cigarettes by Sally Mann was made in 1989 and is located in the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park by Diane Arbus was made in 1962 and is located in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both images are made of a gelatin silver print. This means that a suspension of silver salts in gelatin is coated onto a film resin-coated paper creating the black and white picture.
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In Candy Cigarettes by Sally Mann we can see that this image goes more to the cool tones because we can see a little bit of blue in it, although the photographs are black and white we can see the presence of blue in it. On the other hand Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park by Diane Arbus we can see that it contains more of the warm tones because we can see how it has the brown presence in it. Depending on the tones you use in a phtography the meanings can also vary. For instance whe I see the warm tone in Diane Arbus’ photography it really gives me the feeling of power the kid must have holding the grenade. On the other hand the feeling I get when seeing Sally Mann’s image is more of a laid back defiant