The Bond of Human Emotions and Imagery
The inevitable events of life and death have been symbolized for decades in photographs. This essay will analyze how people can be strongly affected by an image, so much that the prevalent emotions of fear, happiness, grief, hatred, and more complex emotions such as jealousy and regret surface within the viewer. The importance of this analysis can help better understand why humans react to photographs at an emotional level.
Emotional Questioning of a Photograph. The core definition of an image is a moment in time that is permanently frozen, giving people the capability to accurately reference what had happened. In the case of viewing an image with no previous …show more content…
Stanfield made sure that every aspect of the photo gave full impact to his viewers. In speaking about the surgeon, Stanfield says to National Geographic, who included his picture in their “100 Best Pictures”, “I never let him out of my sight, never turned my back on him…this was the pay off." The article done by National Geographic, also mentions that he used 22 rolls of film before reaching that perfect moment he wanted to capture and share with the world.
One trait of a great photographer is the ability to recognize that the angling, lighting, location, time, can contribute to the overall mood of the image. Their skill is being able to find the perfect angle, right amount of lighting, and other parts that make up a photo, that their spectators will view it as the photographer intended.
Stanfield used a lot of patience to capture the perfect moment. Notice how he is at level with the surgeon. Although, the patient takes up nearly half the photo, it is the surgeon who is the main subject of his piece. His viewers can relate to the emotional strain of what he is going through. The outcome is unknown to the viewer; they can feel stress, tiredness, and other emotions by just looking at the …show more content…
As mentioned earlier, more complex emotions can come to surface when viewing an image. In this case, it’s the emotion of being concerned. No questions have been answered that the viewer may have, so they are left pondering what the surgeon is looking at, had the man survived, and so on. This gives them the full potential to connect their emotions to the photograph on a clean basis. As in, if they already knew the outcome, the emotions that felt may have not been as sincere.
Conclusion Photographs, although are used for historical references, can also cause emotions to be released from the spectator. This essay was about how an image of an unknown outcome, can affect a person emotionally in a different way than if they had known. Through the talented eyes of a photographer, they (in this case, Stanfield) are able to capture that perfect moment, which they know their viewers will have an emotional response to, that the photographer
The inevitable events of life and death have been symbolized for decades in photographs. This essay will analyze how people can be strongly affected by an image, so much that the prevalent emotions of fear, happiness, grief, hatred, and more complex emotions such as jealousy and regret surface within the viewer. The importance of this analysis can help better understand why humans react to photographs at an emotional level.
Emotional Questioning of a Photograph. The core definition of an image is a moment in time that is permanently frozen, giving people the capability to accurately reference what had happened. In the case of viewing an image with no previous …show more content…
Stanfield made sure that every aspect of the photo gave full impact to his viewers. In speaking about the surgeon, Stanfield says to National Geographic, who included his picture in their “100 Best Pictures”, “I never let him out of my sight, never turned my back on him…this was the pay off." The article done by National Geographic, also mentions that he used 22 rolls of film before reaching that perfect moment he wanted to capture and share with the world.
One trait of a great photographer is the ability to recognize that the angling, lighting, location, time, can contribute to the overall mood of the image. Their skill is being able to find the perfect angle, right amount of lighting, and other parts that make up a photo, that their spectators will view it as the photographer intended.
Stanfield used a lot of patience to capture the perfect moment. Notice how he is at level with the surgeon. Although, the patient takes up nearly half the photo, it is the surgeon who is the main subject of his piece. His viewers can relate to the emotional strain of what he is going through. The outcome is unknown to the viewer; they can feel stress, tiredness, and other emotions by just looking at the …show more content…
As mentioned earlier, more complex emotions can come to surface when viewing an image. In this case, it’s the emotion of being concerned. No questions have been answered that the viewer may have, so they are left pondering what the surgeon is looking at, had the man survived, and so on. This gives them the full potential to connect their emotions to the photograph on a clean basis. As in, if they already knew the outcome, the emotions that felt may have not been as sincere.
Conclusion Photographs, although are used for historical references, can also cause emotions to be released from the spectator. This essay was about how an image of an unknown outcome, can affect a person emotionally in a different way than if they had known. Through the talented eyes of a photographer, they (in this case, Stanfield) are able to capture that perfect moment, which they know their viewers will have an emotional response to, that the photographer