Name: _______________________
Date: ________________________
Class: _______________________
Photograph and Source: _________________________
First Impressions: As you look at this photograph, try to describe your impressions of it. What do you notice, and what thoughts or memories or emotions does it evoke in you?
Second Impressions: What has the photographer chosen to show you? What has the photographer focused on? What has the photographer included in the frame or the picture and what has been left out?
What is the setting (the place, the time of year, the time of day, and the period of history)? If there are human subjects, who are the people involved and what are they doing? How are they interacting? What is happening in the photograph? What likely happened before the photograph was taken?
How would you describe the photograph technically? Is it black and white or colour? Is it a portrait or a landscape? Does it focus on a detail or on a concept? From what angle was it taken? Are there strong contrasts between light and dark? Colours? Shapes? Foreground and background? What is the mood of the photograph? What feeling does it evoke in you? Why?
What seems to be the purpose of the photograph? Is the photographer documenting a fact? Expressing an idea? What is the message? What does this photograph say to an audience? What is its ultimate value as a work of communication?