Analyzing Photographs
Examine the Photograph/Picture. Use the questions below to help you decode the message of the photograph. Be specific and include as many details as possible in your answers. It is important to reference aspects directly from the photograph when answering your questions whenever possible.
Initial Reading: What can an initial look reveal?
1. Glance at the picture. What is your first ‘gut’ response?
2. Consider your background knowledge. What do you already know about the context of the picture – the time, place, situation, etc.? (list key facts)
Closer Look: How do the pictures techniques help to present the message?
3. Find labels. How do the words, numbers, etc. in the drawing express ideas or identify people or objects? What message do the labels send? (use the information provided about the picture in the words below the picture as well)
4. Notice the people in the picture. How do their facial expressions (exaggerated, oversimplified, emotional features of the figures) add to the effect of the picture? What message does this send to the reader?
5. Identify the symbols (clothing, religious, cultural, etc.). What do these signs or images represent? Is there a lack of symbols in the picture, why? How does this add to the message of the picture?
Draw Conclusions: What overall impression can you draw?
6. Identify possible biases. Whose perspective or point of view is expressed in the Photograph?
7. Explain the overall message of the photograph. A good interpretation is specific and detailed.
ReplyDeleteThere’s a guy with a suit on he looks professional and he's holding a trashcan with a piece of appear labeled the Indian Act in it when he said “Trust me the Indian act is in Tact”. He is lying to the First Nation.
The guy in the Suit lying to the First Nations and looks like an Mp or government official and the First Nation looks Like a Chief. The number 59 is there so it’s probably taking place in 1959 when the Indian Act was going through major reforms and amendments.
The point of view of the cartoon is from the First Nations that believe the Indian Act was useless and belonged in the trash and that the government didn’t care about them.
1.My first impression is that the government is discarding the Indian Act even though they’re telling the indians that it’s still intact. The government official seems to be two faced. He’s lying to the indians.
ReplyDelete2.Well we know that the indian act is a federal legislation that protects the rights of the indians and that was made in 1876. The indian act is important to the indian people.
3. In the garbage can behind the official it says “Indian act 1959” . The paper represents the document, so the official has thrown out the document and he is lying to the indian and saying it's intact.
4. They make the official look angry, arrogant and ignorant. They are making him look like a bad person and like he does not know. The indian is dressed traditionally and not all indians dress like that. The government stereotype them to all dress like that.
5. There is a trash can that represents the document being thrown away. As well as the indian is carrying a briefcase showing he’s there for business. The indian’s headdress is symbolising he’s Aboriginal.
6. The aboriginal is a biased point of view because they’ve been wronged. The government point of view is that nothing about the indians matter and they’re agreements have been thrown away.
7. The Indian and the official are having a business meeting and the official seems to be lying to the indian about the indian act still being intact. When in reality the government is throwing away the indian rights and the indian act behind the aboriginals back. The official is portrayed as someone who is rude, stingy, ignorant and a liar.