Operation First Casualty Image Analysis

The arrangement of this photograph is not manipulated which makes its message stronger. Instead, the photograph was captured as the event was happening. This draws attention to the gravity of the impact of these protests. In the article, Preforming Civic Identity: The Iconic Photograph of the Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, there is an emphasis on the importance of this type of arrangement; the description the arrangement of the iconic Iwo Jima photograph is “there is no hint that anyone is preforming for the camera”. The authors go on the explain that the lack of acting in the photograph “the image can become a performance of war as a national event. By fusing a moment of military action with a sense of visual transparency, the photograph creates a truth effect; this is the image through which the meaning of war can be seen” (Robert Hariman, John Louis Lucaites 372). This concept can also explain the power of the ‘Flower Power’ image, and the message

When viewing art, an observer often has to delve deeper to understand the hidden meaning. However, the photograph of Tank Man is quite the opposite. With this photograph it is as easy, if not easier, to understand the deeper meaning as it is to understand the presentational aspects. The photograph of the Tank Man was taken in the Tiananmen Square in China. During this time, there was a pro-democracy movement led by student protesters. On June 4, these protests were violently suppressed, leading to hundreds of deaths. A day after, on June 5, 1989, this photograph was taken. While the identity and the fate of the Tank Man remains unknown, he has been given names such as the “Unknown Rebel” and the “Unknown Protester.” The photographer, Jeff Widener, was tasked with documenting the Tiananmen crackdown. He took the photograph from his hotel room a half a mile away from the scene. This iconic photograph was taken by a fluke during a time of much uproar.

The collection of images in the Auschwitz Album offered a perspective of the Holocaust from a primary perspective, a photograph. The images display real events of what Jewish people had to endure on their way to Auschwitz, one of the most devastating and infamous concentration camps. While illustrating a panel based off of one of these images, I used many different techniques, inspired by Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus. I adopted these techniques to display the emotion and density of the tone the photograph gives off. My illustration is loosely based on the photograph I selected from the Auschwitz Album, which displays many women and children waiting on a platform, anticipating their deportation. My drawing focuses on a mother and her

Photographers often capture horrific events with a well-known background in order to convey messages that are not explicitly stated. As a student during the Kent College shooting, John Filo was able to capture the aftermath of the National Guard shootings. Officers shot at protesters who were voicing their opinions on the Vietnam War. Filo utilizes components such as the framing of the photo to draw the audience to a focal point as well as using the context surrounding the image in order to provoke strong emotions and demonstrate the unjust and problematic society.

This exhibit is certainly very different than the ones we have seen in pervious gallery reviews. At the performance studio is filled with the Veteran’s. This is the first time ICC has gone hand and hand with the military veterans and hope that this is the beginning of an annual art show that takes place over the years. https://icc.edu/arts/news/icc-art-gallery-exhibits-featuring-works-by-veterans-local-artist-open-october-19/. All the art work has a different artist, but also the artist have different techniques for their art work. After looking through all the different art pieces I pulled out one that certainly stood out to me when as I was looking through them. From Max Barton who was a part of the 5th Army Air Crop,

In the Labor chapter, it showed picture of workers around Hawaii. These pictures show memories about Filipinos’ starting point of history in Hawaii. Each picture expresses a way of how hard working Filipinos’ are and never give up trying to survive.

In order to create the memory of the individuals who lost their lives in the military Iraq war, the artwork can be created by a good artist which can reflect the efforts which used to put up by the personnel and the sacrifice made by them at that time. The purpose was to create the impression of attaining world’s peace at all levels. Such kind of personnel measures cannot be implemented that easily by other developed and developing economies as they does not have so much authority and resources to implement it. At the same time, it has created restrictions against the production and development of several nuclear weapons since long time back. Such kind of examples give clear view America would soon become the superpower. The artwork of the

Within our expansive history lies many infamous moments that have been enshrined inside a photograph. While image that I picked for this paper isn’t necessarily a photograph that many individuals know about, this picture is a great representation of the emotions that captures the global war. This photograph features Himmler and other Nazi officers observing detainees and prisoners of war during World War II. Himmler, one of the leading members of the Nazi party, is visiting the Shirokaya Street Concentration Camp in Minsk, Belarus during an inspection tour of the facility. I picked this picture because my roommate was watching a WW2 documentary and it was one of the pictures that popped up. In the image, you can primarily see officers and

The following photograph title Dessau, Germany 1945, shows a woman laying in pain and sadness in what seems the remaining of her house after a bombing attack in the outbreak of World War II. Once again, a harsh black and white image of a candid moment of pain. Unfortunately, something she worked so hard for, her sacred place, her home all gone in the blink of an eye, everything she ever knew now all rubbles, it must be awful to leave your house for a few hours and come back to chaos. Not only the pain of seen her house destroyed, but also the loss of love ones in a war she is not participating. Her facial expression of unbearable pain says it all, her posture as she lays in the rubbles, it seems like her soul just left her body, such an

This piece represented the universal symbols for the loss of childhood and innocence. This sculpture depicts a ceramic child laying on top of a pile of debris and where the statue's legs are broken at the hips and hands broken at the wrists with the hands laying on the ground and the legs laying on the ground. This sculpture represents the children going thru a war and the effects. Mr. Neal spent a month in Antakya, Turkey with the Syrian refugees that were fleeing the city of Aleppo in 2014. The reason this piece spoke to me was that as a three-time combat vet that has spent three tours in a combat zone and suffer from PTSD and combat-related insomnia this piece is a reminder for me that the total cost of war. While some come back with wounds that can be seen, there are much more who suffer from visible injuries such as loss of limbs, burns, or scars. These injuries are from the soldiers that signed up for that in a sense. Every service member knows there is always a possibility of war. This piece of art shows the entire cost that the civilians in the area have to deal with during the war and in many times the years even decade in the future due to the unexploded ordinance or from wars in the past the landmines that were left. For a US Army soldier, this piece was incredibly

This is one of the pictures that images that really speak to me. There are people in this photo who remind me of people i know, and some i've lost. The use of a group shows how the one in 100s stand together to help themselves and others. The messages show a maturity to accept responsibilities, humility in knowing they were lost, and strength in doing something positive about all that. This conveys a few points, such as unity and finding strength among others. You can see that the majority of their signs say we, this shows a degree of comradery and all being together shows support for one another. We can also take a perspective from the differing looks in their eyes and the differing expressions on their faces. You can see happy and sad,

The picture is drawn by thousand of letters from the lyrics of anti- war songs. I was inspired by the lyrical portrait of singer,Rhianna on Facebook.

The image I was viewing was not graphic, nor even artistically formatted. This photo had caused a strong reaction for one reason, context. The Syrian revolution has been going on since March of 2011. “As of August of 2015, more than 250,000 people have been killed and 12 million displaced because of the conflict” (CNN Library). A total of three people died during the Boston bombings. The drastic difference between these statistics really puts things into scale. While some news coverage has been given to the tragedies occurring in Syria, over the years we have become desensitized to it. When a tragic bombing occurs in our homeland, people take notice. There are endless photos and stories written about the event. The Syrians apologetic sign sent a message of a little more than just condolences. It took the tragic event of our country and diminished it. By reminding us that bombings like this happen every day in Syria. For them it a common occurrence. I don’t mean to say that the Boston bombing was not a terrible incident, but when compared to the happenings over in Syria it makes you wonder where our priorities lie.

The illustration of the lives of American soldiers and the people under occupation, along with the environmental disruption caused by war are apparent in Brik’s Plate #26 Occupation. And on the same note Goya’s plate 44 Yo lo vi (I saw this). Both plates are showing the horrors civilians go through. The technique used strengthens the message both artists were illustrating.

The picture portrays speaking out. Telling leaders to talk about the problems you have with each other instead of killing the innocent. Wars all over the world are not being talked about enough. It’s sad that we as people have simply became comfortable with people killing others simply because they are doing something we do not like. We also don’t act upon the killing of thousands of women and their children in other countries. An article states that “talking more equals less fighting. Choose dialogue over death and destruction. That is a sentiment that we can all stand behind. It is not too late to create a world where words kill wars.”