Picture Analysis

"Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally."

– Francis Galton, first cousin and associate of Charles Darwin, circa 1883

What do you notice first about this image and why?

• Who are the people in this image? What emotions are present?

• What is the situation? What is happening?

• What is the setting (place and time)?

• Does the picture contain any repetition, framing, or balancing (colours signaling something in particular)?

• What message or theme does the picture seem to convey? What aspects of the picture make you think this? Is it supposed to speak for or against an issue?

  1) The racial diversity, because of the amount of people that is in the picture.

2) There are people from many races and social classes, judging their appearance. Everyone looks happy and seems to be nice people. 

3) It doesn't seem that they are doing something apart from smiling to the camera. They are just standing there, representing unity.

4) The setting is a white background, and there's no clear notion of time.

5) The balance of white background and amount of people gives the image of tranquility, a peaceful enviroment helps to understand the symbolism of the image: each person in the photograph is feeling comfortable with the ones that are sorrounding him.

6) Racial equity, given by the armony and simplicity of the picture. The idea of evolution is given by the quote of Eugenics, promoving in a positive aspect the improvement of racial qualities in future generations.

 

 

 

 

 

What do you notice first about this image and why?

•What emotions are present?

• What is the situation? What is happening?

• What is the setting (place and time)?

• Does the picture contain any repetition, framing, or balancing (colours signaling something in particular)?

• What message or theme does the picture seem to convey? What aspects of the picture make you think this? Is it supposed to speak for or against an issue?

 

 

1) The missing part of the trees, because the colors doesn´t fit with the rest of it.

2) The natural concept and beauty gives an image of happiness and tranquility, but the missing part of this "lungs" brings a menacing concept of sadness that is going to consume this trees.
3) There are trees misssing, in a completely green area, so one can assume that they were removed by human beings. It gives the image of a dying nature.
4) One can infer that it is the modern times, because men has interacted with this nature in the way of extracting resources. The place is simply one natural area that hasn't been built-up with a city yet.
5) The balance of the colours suggests that something,in this case manking probably, is threatening the very existence of this beautiful background.
6) Enviromental pollution, this image speaks against it showing a clear and simple picture of nature being destroyed by human beings. The pureness of the green area expresses the maximum beauty of what is actually natural, a concept that is absent nowadays. Humans are consuming this limited resources, the ones that helps us to have a better life, so we as moral thinkers should return the favour by protecting this enviroment in which we depend. The lungs of nature are dying in this symbolic image.