For this task I’ll be choosing three published images, which in some way share some relevance with me. Then by using the words story, message, feeling and connection to analyse my images. The first published image is a magazine cover from Little White Lies. The illustration on the cover was created by Joe Wilson depicting a character from the movie ‘Attack the Block’. Wilson’s illustration has a very dramatic style; the use of lines has this hand drawn aspect which carry’s a lot of texture in the image. Due to the blues and dark blues this illustration comes across with a mysterious tone giving off a spooky message, however this works well because these feeling correspond with the movie shown.

There are lots of images that can carry many emotions with in them and this specific poster by Shepard Fairey is exactly one of those. What is very powerful about this poster is the genuineness coming across in Obama’s face this directly links with the overall massage, “HOPE” its even written across the bottom of the poster in large just to reinforce the point. Additionally I really like how Fairey has decided to use these patriotic colours, the blue representing the democrats and the red being the republicans. These colours to me are trying to connect the people and show them that they can move forward together.

Another one of my interest also includes photography, so this next image was very fascinating to me. This last image is a photograph taken by Aleksandr Rodchenko, “The Stairs”. The photo shows a woman alone carrying her child holds some expression to the image. The emptiness of the photo forces you to focus on the loneliness of the woman as she walks up the stairs, you think about why she’s alone in the middle of a city setting. I found very appealing the sharp contrast and the heavy shadows in the image, this just adds to the barren tone of the photo.

Bibliography

Joe Wilson “Little White Lies – Attack the Block”, (2011) : http://www.joe-wilson.com/little-white-lies-covers/

Shepard Fairey “Obama Hope”, (2008) : https://obeygiant.com/obama-hope/

Aleksandr Rodchenko “The Stairs”, (1930) : http://davidsartoftheday.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/aleksandr-rodchenko-stairs.html