Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Chapter 8 Photojournalism & Bias

Photograph By: Ed Clark
Year Created: April 13, 1945

Emotion:
This image shares a lot of emotions. The Navy Chief tries to remain his composure playing the accordion with tears running down his face. The feeling of losing a loved one is unbearable. It had to of been difficult to remain tall and strong, head up high to maintain himself as a Navy Chief Officer
Color:
This image is black and white, with a lot of grey tones. The main subject appears to be clear. However, the shadows in the women's faces it difficult to identify if they are seeing Roosevelts flag draped train pass by or if they are glaring at the Navy Officer playing the accordion. 
Main Subject:
The main subject in the photograph is Graham Jackson in his Navy uniform playing the accordion. In addition, the main subject is off centered to the left and surrounded by people. It created the eye to focus elsewhere to see all the other faces.

Ed Clark’s photograph displays a United States Navy Chief playing “Going Home” on his accordion, with tears running down his face. To the right of him, there is an array of people standing and sitting with great sadness as deceased President Franklin D. Roosevelt leaves Warn Springs, Ga on April 13, 1945. However, the three women standing are glaring at Graham Jackson with their arms folded that express racism of the past. To me, the tears of Graham Jackson symbolizes gratuity towards Roosevelts efforts on Civil rights. Franklin D Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 8802 which created that created the Fair Employment Practice Committee that prohibited racial discrimination that led to the Civil Rights Act. This image reflects how deeply the public cherished their President of the United States of America during this time. According to the Can interview with Shahidul Alam, "there is an implicit assumption, there is only one truth that there is only one way of looking at things; a story has many truths at many levels." For an example, another perspective of this image is the facial expression on Navy Chief Graham Jackson has deep emotion as if he's lost someone close to him. Each viewpoint of  photographs creates a bias opinion leading to different stories. However, this could create untruthful news stories. 

Photograph by: Ron Johnson
Year Created:2014
Background compliments:
In this photograph the main subject is the basket ball player in one half of the image. Along with the referee calling a foul play. All the spectators are blurred out to focus on the main subject or main subjects.
Expression:
The expression of the basketball player seems angry with his hand gestures with both middle fingers up as the referee calls a foul.
Rule of thirds:
The basketball player is off centered along with the referee. However, with the gestures he's

portraying triumphs one of the rules of photojournalism.


This photograph taken by Ron Johnson has the caption, “Jalen Brunson of Lincolnshire Stevenson makes a gesture to the Chicago Whitney Young crowd.” However, that is not the truth in the situation. Although, he is displaying poor sportsmanship it wasn't gestured towards his opponents fans. Brunson a player for Lincolnshire was angry with the call that was made on his successful 3- point shot that was fouled during his attempt. Another photographer Scot Strazzante captured multiple photographs of this as well. However, he was certain these gestures were not intentional. According to the article How Photos Fuel the Spread of Fake News, "Misappropriation and misrepresentation of images helped drive the growth of fake news. Sadly, after this photograph was published , Johnson was suspended for his poor sportsmanship.
Photograph By:Pirozzi
Year created: 1990's
Simplicity: This image is very simple because there isn't much in the background in one third while the remaining two thirds is the woman holding a young child. Your focus remains on the woman and the helplessness in her eyes. 
Does the image remind you of any work of art or photograph you have seen? 
This photograph reminds me of many photographs we see of children in other countries. Mothers desperate to care for their children while they cling to their mothers. I couldn't imagine the feelings they're experiencing. These images make you feel helpless and rude for not helping them. 
Focused: 
This photograph is focused directly on the woman holding the malnourished child. It clear to see the texture of the woman's hijab as it looks soft like velvet. The photograph is clear and able to identify the details. 

To me this photograph represents truth. According to the article The Rules of Photojournalism Are Keeping Us From the Truth, "A technically proficient image that looks like those of past photojournalism will catch the eye." The malnourished child holding onto the woman represents innocence. According to the Power of Visual Communication, "this photograph was taken in Iraq in in the 1990s and has led to International sanctions contributing to food and medical shortages in countries." I'd like to believe that biases' wouldn't be portrayed in this image. However, we know a lot of third world countries are suffering in many ways. The photographer works for UNICEF to protect the rights, needs, and abilities of children by funding developmental assistance. 

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