The Subway Visual Analysis

Imagine yourself with an age of seventy. You might have imagined yourself enjoying the things that you have built at the end of your life. It can be money, honor, family, friends or anything important you got from the whole life. But in reality, not many people spend their later years like that. Sometimes it is even impossible to have a rest, still remaining at city's busy life. People dream better and leisurely days tomorrow and that becomes the reason why they endure all the hardships in cities today. This photo might make those kinds of people stop for a while and think about the city's coldness that they are suffering right now. This photo of the old gentleman is going to tell you about the tiredness and the loneliness of city life in an old age.
A general image of an old man is someone who is in a relaxing place to enjoy the rest of his life after retirement, released from all the burdens of the youth. But in this photo, the man doesn't seem to be deviated from tiredness of working life yet. Bright morning street is seen through the …show more content…
City life is not a thing that is always deserted; it can be also described as a place full of youth and vigor. Subway is one of the symbols of city's vitality. Subway helps people to move around the city in a short time, which make various exchanges between people to be possible. In this photo, the bright colors of the subway chair remind us how the city is active. And in the middle of those colors, an old man in a colorless gray suit is sitting with a tired face. The color of the suit and the color of the chair do not fit together, which makes the old man seems to be separated from the background. He is not getting along with city's joy, and we can think of him as the one who only experiences the depressing side of the city. Maybe he is too old and tired of his long city life that he cannot afford a pleasure to