Visual Analysis On Child Abuse

Here is a visual analysis of a child abuse advert produced by a company trying to address the issues of child abuse through a very controversial image, of two young children who are represented as broken china dolls.
Roland Barthes Rhetoric of Image, article untangles all the obvious and not so obvious meanings to some people underneath the image itself, creating a representation producing a system of signs. Within the photograph featured is two captions repeated ‘You can lose more than your patience’ the repetition makes the viewer think about what the caption really means, it’s almost threatening. This is a key example of a linguistic message where the caption relates to the problem and meaning of the photograph in place. Which then also …show more content…
From as early as the 1900’s the photograph became the main medium of visual art. For example it can seen from this photograph quite simply that it is in awareness of child abuse by the young children acting as broken china dolls. Within Berger’s essay he is very blunt and has given the impression of being very sexist. For example stated within his essay females are seen as prime and ideal clients to work with opposed to men for an advertisement. Within this advertisement it is obvious that very cute innocent children would be the key client to be used for this advertisement to get the key message across to the viewers and to cause the most controversy to help children getting abused, as to if a fully grow man for example was used within the advertisement it would not get quite the same affect. According to Berger also conventions have been established that the social present of man is completely different to man, for example through social status, power, expressions gestures etc. For example in my chosen photograph the little girl is showing now expression and the little boy is crying this is to confuse the how it visual reviewed by the viewer because you would think that it would be the other way around, which gives the viewer a bit more interest and engagement to the photograph by making it more interesting. Berger argues that …show more content…
While reading Benjamin’s “A little History of Photography” it could be seen that the precision of a portrait magically can pass on the individuality of the person photographed. For example within the visual analysis of the child abuse advert the individuality of each child is very précised and you can tell a lot of work and thought has gone to making the photograph effective by the expressions of the children and representing the children as broken china dolls. Photography replaced a sum of landscape photography, and a large sum of miniature portrait paintings it can be found from Benjamin’s biography. Portrait photography became very quickly a booming business accessorizing, adding all sorts of unnecessary retouching and elements. Very early on portrait photography had originated from the long posing, mostly bad lighting, obscuring photographs of models. Which was soon replaced by the seen all faithful mirror photography which was held up to the rising middle class. The viewer not only needs to learn the visual language, but the photographers themselves need to learn how to read their photographs correctly. Reproducible of photography and art has rose to a different genre of perception, in which we had then reduced objects and then made them reproducible to a T. Photography has made objects that maybe seemed ugly beautiful, suited for creative sales purposes, but