Sitting Man With A Pink Face Essay

Sitting Man with a Pink Face by Irving Penn was taken in 1970 and printed on 1979. Graham’s photograph is known to be 52.5 cm by 49.4 cm as an image, 63.1 cm by 56 cm in paper form, and 65.8 cm by 56 cm as a mount. Eddie Pratt as Cupid by photographer David Graham was photographed in Pennsylvania. As I tried to do research on Graham's photograph, I cannot find how big this photograph can come. Each of these photographs were taken in the United States and have a Christian spirituality. These photographs are not exactly representing the Christian spirituality specifically with a cross or anything with Jesus. However, these photos have their own spirituality meanings behind them. As I look at both of these photographs, I see a lot of different things going on at once. Each person in these photos are wearing a lot of different things. Looking at Penn’s photograph, the model in the photo has a face mask and what looks like feathers on …show more content…
Cupid is known to be pink and some cupids are all pink. These pink colors in Graham photograph are not organization by any means, they could not be organized due to the fact that it is all the same shade of pink and there is only one color. Although, I cannot tell what colors Penn uses in his photograph because it is in black and white. As I stated before, Penn’s title of his work describes how the man has a pink face. With that being said, the model must have a pink face, but that is all the color I know is in this photograph. Overall, both Sitting Man with a Pink Face by Irving Penn and Eddie Pratt as Cupid by photographer David Graham are very similar photographs, although different in their own ways. As I researched both photographs I found more information on Penn’s photograph than I did Graham’s. After analyzing both of these photographs, I find more similarities than I do