Group work

As a group we were looking at the different types and degrees Sally Mann uses in her photograph for Emmett, Jessie and Virginia. One type used is hypertextuality, as we were looking at the different medias that could have given Sally Mann the inspiration to produce her pictures of her children. We knew that family means a lot of Sally Mann and she likes using the same style camera as her father used when he produced his photographs. We also looked at a picture of a homeless Irish man photographed by Don McCullin.

This is a black and white picture of a close up shot of a homeless Irish man. From looking at the picture you can see that the fix expression on his face with his eye contact with the camera makes the viewer wants to feel for the man. He is looking straight at the camera the same as Sally Mann’s children in her photograph, but the viewer has different emotions when looking at both of the pictures. Whereas the children look confidant and strong the man looks sad and lonely.

The man also looks in focus whereas the background seems out of focus, which makes the viewer want to know where the location is. This effect is also used in the Sally Mann photograph of her children with the use of the background being out of focus, but the viewer doesn’t have that sense of wanting to know where the children are, but what their location looks like. As the use of the out of focus effects makes the picture on a whole seem like a dream world location.