A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Ariel Hornsby
March 13 2015
Photography is the only language that can be understood by any language. In every picture there is a meaning that is meant to be captured, it may be an obvious or it may be an underlying meaning. Art is such a beautiful thing that is very interesting to look at. There is an art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas named Crystal Bridges that has many different paintings and sculptures that may be saying one thing but actually end having a totally different meaning. The picture I chose is in black and white and it is picture of the upper half of a man who is wearing a suit and for a tie he has a noose around his neck. This could be perceived in different ways: it could be saying that work is an overbearing thing that we have to go to everyday and there is no happiness in it of it could mean that material things in this world could be the death of us.
The first way I perceived the photo was, materialistic things in this world could be the death of us. Do to how competitive we are as humans about wanting to be better than the person sitting next to us. George Monbiot, a writer for The Guardian states, “Materialism forces us into comparison with the possessions of others, a race both cruelly illustrated and crudely propelled by that toxic website. There is no end to it. If you have four Rolexes while another has five, you are a Rolex short of contentment. The material pursuit of self-esteem reduces your self-esteem.”
Comparing ourselves to other and what they have can lead to depression and a low-esteem because we would never be happy with ourselves and what makes us happy has a person. In today’s society we buy things to impress people who we do not like and feel empty during the process.
The second way this picture could be seen is, that some people go to work day to day not enjoying what they do, but they do it because they need money to survive. My dad has
Ariel Hornsby
March 13 2015
Photography is the only language that can be understood by any language. In every picture there is a meaning that is meant to be captured, it may be an obvious or it may be an underlying meaning. Art is such a beautiful thing that is very interesting to look at. There is an art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas named Crystal Bridges that has many different paintings and sculptures that may be saying one thing but actually end having a totally different meaning. The picture I chose is in black and white and it is picture of the upper half of a man who is wearing a suit and for a tie he has a noose around his neck. This could be perceived in different ways: it could be saying that work is an overbearing thing that we have to go to everyday and there is no happiness in it of it could mean that material things in this world could be the death of us.
The first way I perceived the photo was, materialistic things in this world could be the death of us. Do to how competitive we are as humans about wanting to be better than the person sitting next to us. George Monbiot, a writer for The Guardian states, “Materialism forces us into comparison with the possessions of others, a race both cruelly illustrated and crudely propelled by that toxic website. There is no end to it. If you have four Rolexes while another has five, you are a Rolex short of contentment. The material pursuit of self-esteem reduces your self-esteem.”
Comparing ourselves to other and what they have can lead to depression and a low-esteem because we would never be happy with ourselves and what makes us happy has a person. In today’s society we buy things to impress people who we do not like and feel empty during the process.
The second way this picture could be seen is, that some people go to work day to day not enjoying what they do, but they do it because they need money to survive. My dad has