Blog Post Week #1

                 Three Boys Running, Scotland, 1960 (1)              Scotland, 1960 (2)

                  1a: "Three Boys Running" The background of the city. I was fascinated with the emptiness of it. 

                  1b. For one, there is no focus. Everything in the photo is somewhat blurry. The blur emphasizes the fact that the boys are running around. 

                   1c. It implies that people were not always on the streets, or that that particular neighborhood was abandoned. 

                    2a: "Scotland" I love the fog creating the appearance of an infinite flatland. 

                     2b. The subject is not necessarily the person on the horse. One could say that the subject is the land that is foggy/faded and could even say the subject isn't on the photo. The combination of dimmed flatlands and those flatlands taking up the majority of the photo create a mysterious effect. As if the person on the horse is exploring. 

                      2c. This shows that Scotland in the 60's was sparsely populated, and much untouched by man. It implies that the people who lived there had an air of adventure and exploration to them. 

                     3a: "Wales" I deeply enjoy this one. The kid does not seem to be very happy, this is suggested have something to do with the factories behind him. The toys also seem to be very creepy looking; almost as if taken out of a horror film. 

                      3b. The child is clearly the subject of the photo, but he isn't dead-center. Davidson wanted to draw the viewer's attention towards the factories in the background. This is also supported by the fact that they are also in focus. After the viewer notices the clear abundance of pollution, they turn their attention back to the boy and see how he is clearly not happy. The viewer can then infer many things about how the factories are impacting the child. 

                                                       

                                                      Wales, 1965 (3)

       This photo was actually an opportunistic photo. I had no idea that I was going to take it 5 seconds before I actually took it. I compare it to the photo of the boys running in the street. There are a few qualities to this photo that are similar to that photo and a few that are not similar but are significant nonetheless. First, note how the photo is blurry. This is similar to Davidson's photo in a sense that they both call attention to the non-subjects. In my photo, the subject is the woman walking, but it also calls attention to the skyline in the distance. In Davidson's photo, the subject is the boys playing with attention called to the empty street. The blurriness also implies motion, not only with the woman walking, but also the 'motion' of the city. It is dark, but the city is awake. There is also some color to this picture on the trash bins, the signs, the lights, and even the store(s) across the street. You can even see some blue in the windows of the skyscrapers in the distance. If you look hard, you can also see how the light pollution affects the darkness of the sky. The area right next to the building on the right is very bright, yet the area to the left of the photo is not.