Tuesday, October 4, 2011

photography and colonialism

i choose this image by john william lidnt because it has such a interesting prospectives, the way the lidnt positioned the main subject making him more dominant, having his spear and boomerang at the ready. he did everything in such a way it looks like he is protecting his wives from the outside world. i think its just a bit to sugar coated, its a perfect image for the classic western society view of less 'devolved' society as they would say. i can understand he was trying to get all of their things like tools and cubbys in the image but the 'scene' he created looks just to fake

if he used these image in a commercial scence i would strongly dislike them but because he didn't turn him images into post cards like the other photographers that changes my feelings towards his work allot more






1 comment:

  1. Hi Alex, your writing is not very clear and I am not sure I understand your argument. You also need to write complete sentences, grammatically correct etc - I suggest you make a booking at the Learning Centre for some support in writing as you will find next year a lot harder. Take along your blog and the assignment briefs so they are able to help you.

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