There is only so much a news article can say, but a photograph can bring emotion to you that changes your outlook on that situation. For example, a very famous photo by Richard Drew called ‘The Falling Man’, a photograph of the 9/11 attack witnessing the moment a workman from the towers plummeted to the ground after jumping. Even though this event was worldwide renowned, many people were unaware of the actual emotion associated with the event, the terror and the destruction that happened on that date. The different and most impacting part of this image is that from this event the most widely known photographs were of the planes or the towers, whereas Drews photograph was of the people, which creates a whole new level of compassion and emotion
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His stance as he is falling is calm and composed, as if he has accepted the inevitable and is peacefully falling. There is very little distraction in the image from what is evident, causing you to not be able to stray away from the horrific event frozen in time, apart from feel the emotion the photographer intended.
In the film from the article called ‘The Story Behind the Haunting 9/11 Photo of a Man falling from the Twin Towers’ written by Times Magazine, Drew says ‘Journalists don’t run away from the falling building we don’t run away from fire we run to it, because it’s our job to record history’. I think this quote perfectly sums up what documentary photography has always been about through history, the documenting and sharing of historical events that we can forever look upon and remember, despite the fact that it can cause increased controversy from every photo and …show more content…
The resulting disjunction—between words that refer to an all-too-human state and images devoid of people—suggests the inherent limitations of both photography and language as “descriptive systems” to address a complex social problem.”
This quote represents how much of Rosler’s emotion she puts into her work to create a piece which not only shows social states, but causes the reader to look further into the words and writings next to it, which creates a stronger connection between the audience and the empty photographs. By taking out the person/people whom the work is surrounding, it leaves you wondering many things about the person, creating your own image in your head of their life and how you perceive them to be. It could almost be classed as a game, being given a setting and words that represent the people within that setting, and having to create your own scene. This form of photography causes each individual viewer to experience a different outcome with the images, in which every person creates a different scene, which can be a perception almost of their own lives being replicated onto the image from what is left to look
His stance as he is falling is calm and composed, as if he has accepted the inevitable and is peacefully falling. There is very little distraction in the image from what is evident, causing you to not be able to stray away from the horrific event frozen in time, apart from feel the emotion the photographer intended.
In the film from the article called ‘The Story Behind the Haunting 9/11 Photo of a Man falling from the Twin Towers’ written by Times Magazine, Drew says ‘Journalists don’t run away from the falling building we don’t run away from fire we run to it, because it’s our job to record history’. I think this quote perfectly sums up what documentary photography has always been about through history, the documenting and sharing of historical events that we can forever look upon and remember, despite the fact that it can cause increased controversy from every photo and …show more content…
The resulting disjunction—between words that refer to an all-too-human state and images devoid of people—suggests the inherent limitations of both photography and language as “descriptive systems” to address a complex social problem.”
This quote represents how much of Rosler’s emotion she puts into her work to create a piece which not only shows social states, but causes the reader to look further into the words and writings next to it, which creates a stronger connection between the audience and the empty photographs. By taking out the person/people whom the work is surrounding, it leaves you wondering many things about the person, creating your own image in your head of their life and how you perceive them to be. It could almost be classed as a game, being given a setting and words that represent the people within that setting, and having to create your own scene. This form of photography causes each individual viewer to experience a different outcome with the images, in which every person creates a different scene, which can be a perception almost of their own lives being replicated onto the image from what is left to look