Lady Tuckaway (Sára a berakónő) Showing all the circular mails and others falling into her mailbox mirror. Informations never lose but loose, rarely change, but go around merry in this global memory refreshment cycle. Sometimes new grains of sand fall into the machinery.

2012. február 10., péntek

So that others can be free at Visual Culture Blog: Visual Studies and Visual Communication

Visual Culture Blog

Visual Culture, Politics and Criticism.

So that others can be free

without comments


Samuel Aranda, World Press Photo of 2011

The World Press Photo of 2011 has been awarded to Samuel Aranda from Spain. His striking photograph produced for The New York Times shows a woman holding a wounded relative during protests against Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa on Oct. 15. Similar to past winners of the World Press Photo award, arguably the most important professional distinction for photojournalists, the image is highly charged, dramatic and evocative of a painful event. It is, at first sight, an image that is easily understood precisely because it alludes to feelings and emotions that are universal: the physical pain endured through injury, the emotional pain endured through a relatives injury, and, in extreme, the traumatic pain endured through death. Apart from this schema that can be attributed to a whole range of photojournalistic images, in this blog post I wish to dig deeper, and discover why particularly Aranda’s image was chosen

via visualcultureblog.com

Share |
Bejegyezte: Lady Tuckaway (Sára a berakónő) dátum: 23:56

Nincsenek megjegyzések:

Megjegyzés küldése

Feliratkozás: Megjegyzések küldése (Atom)