Analysis of Oliviero Toscani’s “Tongues” Photo for United Colors of Benetton

III. Purpose and stance; Here’s where we “read” the ad and describe it – visual rhetoric

Advertisements have become a huge part of society in the modernized world of today. Around the world, many people can see all of the various advertisements not only on TVs and newspapers but also on billboards, buses, and walls of buildings. Advertising is an influential part of life and we can easily realize that it has useful purposes for public and private manufacturers and companies throughout the world. Advertisements can either give consumers a great amount of knowledge about the products or just convince them to buy and want the products. Advertisements also help sell the products which keep the economy growing, but people should also be aware of how much they spend because they may not actually need every product that they see that they want to purchase. In the Daisy by Marc Jacobs’s perfume advertisement, the artist uses many different techniques to emphasize the advertisement. Some of the different techniques that the artist uses are color, symbolism, and composition.

Through visual anthropology, images, ads, and cartoons are constantly changing individual’s views and the world in which they live in. Images are not merely pictures to state the obvious, they are pictures that have a deeper meaning. Whether the meaning is shown or not shown, they convey representation of something more meaningful in the end. Stuart Hall

Advertisements are by nature build upon the three persuasive principles of Aristotle’s tradition: ethos, logos and pathos. The way these powerful tools are used is not always ethical, in the sense that, too often, they are used, maybe also unintentionally but still, to convey the wrong messages. This is the case of the advertisement made by Gap U.K., the famous American clothes shop, now popular all over the world. In this essay I am going to deeply analyze the advert using the techniques of the Visual Analysis. I will start with Panofsky’s Iconology, which consists in describing a picture according to three level of analysis (Primary, Secondary and Tertiary).

Newspapers, Magazines, Television, Online… advertising is everywhere. Within the myriad of advertisements displayed in front of viewers every day, there are appeals. Society neglects and overlooks these marketing strategies that toy with their minds, resulting in skyrocketing purchases after the release of an advertisement. In “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals,” Jib Fowles identifies the appeals he believes are implemented in advertisements. These appeals include sexual innuendos, powerful images, or comforting displays which draw the audience into the desired product. After analyzing the ads within the Vogue January 2018 edition, an extremely popular fashion and lifestyle magazine, the demographics can be determined as a market with expensive taste. The graphics are extremely feminine and contain Fowles’s previously mentioned appeals, like the “need for prominence.” Although not all of the fifteen appeals apply to these advertisements, Fowles’s list is still valid and does not need revisions as the readership of Vogue magazine is just a small sample of the population. Through the appeals of each advertisement, this clear readership is developed, rather than using all of the Fowles’s appeals and not addressing the correct audience.

Dior Suavage Makes The Heart Yearn For The Wild Jib Fowles’ essay “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals” analyzes the different appeals that show up in advertisements. The appeals range from the need for nurture to the need for sex. The viewers witnessing Dior’s new advertisement for Dior Sauvage, featuring Johnny Depp, are not immune to these basic appeals. The appeals used to captivate the audience include the need to escape, the need to satisfy curiosity, and the need for aesthetic sensations.

Note any other details that would help your analysis.-The advertisement is simply one photo. Yet, the artist was able to fit in pathos and ethos arguments along with a picture that touched the heart of all those who viewed it.

The advertisement appeals mostly to women than men since the particular item shown in the image is a bright white purse being held by a malnourished woman. This visual represents the difference between a “want” and an urgent need. Its main purpose is to make women think twice about buying a purse that they may not need or donating only five dollars a week to someone who needs to be fed in order to be able to survive and in some cases feed their children, for example the woman in the picture whose name is Elisabeth Leonkokwea, she has four children she must feed. The advertisement’s image has a small amount of writing. By doing so, the rhetorical device

As we follow to review any type of advertisement besides the image and colors we also have another important detail such as the content of text.In this particular advertisement we have at the top center once again what drags our eyes to the main key this imagine is transmitting "Dollar & Sense" .Attach with some statistics of about 63 percent of woman having to deal with credit card debt at an early stage of their life .To the audience eyes this explains the white woman's body replacing the body of George Washington.

Reebok has advertised their new shoe, called the Pump. In doing so they use diction, sentence structure (syntax), and visual images to appeal the Pump to readers. This makes the ad stand out. It makes the ad memorable. The ad benefits from them because they are used in communicating the ad’s message.

The subject placed center in a billowy white gown against a black background generates a contrast forcing the eye to the gown. Two exposures placed generate an hour glass composition. The use of diagonal line forces the eye to the faces of the two images placing more of an emphasis on the expression of the subject then the fashion in the advertisement. Using light and positioning Man Ray created a series of repeating triangular patterns placing emphasis on the skirt of the gown (L'Ecotais,

Amongst all of these advertisements, a natural link is developed between the visual representation and the product/idea being sold. In the first ad, a masculine link of control and success was created between the picture and job, targeted for both elder men and women. For man, their natural state of superiority would increase if he took this job. For the woman, her natural lower class state would move up to that of manís. The perfume ad, on the other hand, is attracting female customers only. The feminine feelings of happiness, peace, beauty and truth are linked through objects from nature, such as the sky and clouds; and these feelings are stereotypically viewed as feminine. The third ad selling a vacation trip is directed mainly toward college students. The presentation of freedom, adventure and relaxation grab studentsí attention, especially for those who really need to get away from school stress. The ad targets all sorts of students, those ìmasculineî ones who are seeking adventure and those

The advertisement that I have decided to describe and analyze is one from Armani Code, a cologne producing company. When I first glanced at the advertisement, there were a few things that jumped out to me. The first of those things was an attractive white female with a lot of skin showing kissing and hugging an attractive white male who is professionally dressed. The next thing that caught my eye was the fact that the male was staring off somewhere into the distance while this beautiful female was trying to kiss him. He is portraying himself as if he is disinterested in the female. The third and final thing that caught my eye before actual analysis of the advertisement was the fact that the picture is all black and white. The girl, with her skin showing, is mainly all white. The male in his suit is mainly all black, with the exception of his face and white undershirt. Additionally, the bottle the cologne is held in, which is placed in the bottom right hand corner, is all black as well, with the words Armani Code printed on the bottom of the bottle is small print. While the ad itself is quite simple in design, it’s the meaning behind the picture that provides the most power. The message behind this advertisement is if Armani Code cologne is worn by any man that so many girls will like that man wearing the cologne in a sexual way that the man will eventually become sick of the females and focus on other things. This particular ad targets males while chasing the

In his essay The Rhetoric of The Image, Roland Barthes explores the relationship between image and meaning. He centres his discussion around the advertisement as advertising is a medium in which there is an intended message being sent to the viewer. Barthes puts forward that if an image contains signs, in advertising the signs are ‘full’, as these signs are formed with the viewer in mind so that the intended message is not missed.

The basics of Semiotics were laid down by a Swiss linguist, Ferdinand De Saussure (1857-1913). “He used the word to describe a new science which he saw as ‘a science, which studies the life of signs at the heart of social life’ [Saussure cited in Underwood] He considered that a sign had two essential elements: the signifier and the signified. A signifier is any material thing that