Landscape: Activity 1

View the image by Walker Evans on this page and describe what you can actually see (objective analysis) and what you think the image is about (subjective analysis). Discuss how effective Walker Evans has been in using a landscape image to communicate a point of view. Can this photograph be considered as Art? Give two reasons to support your answer. Make sure you include the image in your blog post with credit in the citation. When you analyze the photo, look for deeper meaning beyond the literal description of the Photo.

Walker Evans

In the image by Walker Evans; I am able to immediately see the cross that is presented in the front left of the picture. Though less obvious, I can also see the smaller more concealed crosses and grave markers that are in the near distance. From the overall size of the cross, I could assume one of two things. 

One; that the cross utilized as a marker to represent the number of people that have died, making it seem larger than it actually is, or two; that the overly large cross serves as a postmark for those who lay in the graves below.   

In my own opinion, this photograph can be described as art for the simple reason that it captures something that most people may not take the time to look at. It also carries a heavy hand of emotion, something that I believe every art piece must have. Most people choose to focus on the life in images; weather it be writing or drawing or photography or some other medium. This piece on the other hand, stands out because it is encircling death. 

Overall, I was very intrigued as by the nature of the image as well as hit by the weight of its concepts.