Visual Analysis of culture

this picture i have taken i would say show a more lower class type of person and atmosphere. for example the people in this phootgraph do not look as though they are particularly rich due to the observation of clothing and posture. their clothing is basic and could be work clothing probabky a more meanial job on less pay as they are all in town around the ‘metro’ a cheap convinience shop on the outskirts of the city centre.the aesthetics of this image create a colour op feel where its needed but makes the people in the image seem dull and almost ghost like. the bus and ‘metro’ sign stand out because that is what i wanted them to do the colours pop and make your eye bounce around the image at all the components of the image. but this is an old image and i need to write more of the new images i have taken that relate to culture and social life in derby.

Looking back on how my childhood was i didn’t have lots of technology and was an outdoors child but children nowadays are leading different lives due to culture in the present day being different for children causing them to have a very different childhood type. ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ (from L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between).

in the contemporary world children have barely any responsibility and are nurtured bought nice things and typically treated well. whereas back say one hundred years children had to focus on production not consumption and labor not play which shows just how much things have changed culturally and socially and how this has affected children.

children are fascinating and such dreamers i wanted to capture the curiosity of children and how we may lose this as we develop and forget how to image and dream as adults. the first image i took here the curiosity of this little girl was amazing always learning like everything she was seeing was something new, but as her mother pulls her away from fascinating new things she’s looking back wondering what I’m doing. as she stars into the lens i see possibility in her eyes, she could turn into anything and the woman who is pulling her is her mother and the main influence in her life that will guide her and develop her into the adult she inevitably will be soon. i have tried here to take images from a curious and new interesting way in order to see the world like a child again and see that there is always so many new things to learn.

its quite sad that the amount of economical status someone has is what raises their children and gives an education to both child and parent, sadly money is a crucial part of life without it we do not have a quality of life. a child raised in a less economically benefitted atmosphere won’t have the clothing and the pocket money or experiences say a child from a wealthy family may have.

Culture and social

CULTURE

images i believe represent culture:

expensive shoes and “big value’ shopping have no money but spend their money on their groceries.

having to take the bus

using a public phone with cash and not having your own phone

mothers, punks, father, sons

apartment blocks with a big security system and small window so they can’t be smashed typically for troubled housing areas.

“mothers meeting” classic mothers chatting whilst shopping in sainsbury’s

(LOW CULTURE)

manager setting the ralph Lauren display

poshly dresed and relaxed elegance, effortless beauty, at an experienced age barely any wrinkle except smile lines and crow feet on the eyes (smile lines) no drug or alcohol abuse and no nicotine addiction.

a posh pub with elegant plants expensive and only available to richer people or upper class/ middle class.

wine is for cultured people stereotypically posh people try wine and visit vineyards for tasting parties.

(HIGH CULTURE)

modern life and culture in images

to be cultured is stereo typically to be well off to have an interest in fine arts and cuisine and also to be typically well educated.

culture is what traditions someone holds close to them. (reloigion, ethnicity, gender)

customs and your morals all come under how cultured you are.

(CHECK THIS OUT AGAIN)

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/apr08/vol65/num07/The-Myth-of-the-Culture-of-Poverty.aspx

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SOCIAL

• technolgy taking over (sat down with family to dinner (sat on phone)
• uninventive generation, redoing the styles from the past (80s fashion,90s fashion)
• letters are gone people email now
• musical change
• young celebs took drugs and have turned bad
• cant out a phone down for 5 minutes.
• artificial colourings have made foods more ‘appealing’ change of packing as times have changed
• things are more expensive.

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Chinese foot binding culture this was culturally acceptable to them at the time as this was the ‘norm’ and was a tradition to which took place in order for women to find a suitable partner. The process was started when women were aged between four and nine before their feet were fully developed and was often carried out during the winter months when the girls’ feet would be numb from the cold,this tradition was also named ‘lotus feet’ to make it seem like a more beautiful thing to do and be a part of. as you can see below this woman’s feet are so small as her bones were bent at a young age purely for the reason that they believed men wanted a woman with small feet.

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Tom Hunter, Bouncy Castle 1995

William Eggleston, 1980

two very different types of culture and social status captured here by two different photographers. the first image taken by Tom Hunter was a festival image where people don’t take themselves too seriously and are having a good time but probably wouldn’t want to be seen in front of others in normal circumstances like this. the second image portrays a more serious and well of person and this is a very judging concept as we are only shown the back of her head, however we can still tell that this person is more elegant possibly more educated and bought up in a more affluent background. the way the second woman holds herself is that of an elegant posture and again shows how some people are taught to behave from a young age in a more middle class upbringing.if we go back to the first image we see that posture is definitely not a concern here and that the people are almost drooped over and relaxed. the hair of the woman in the second image is a lot more prepared and you can tell that a lot of effort has gone into making it perfect the fact that people cannot see the back of their head may suggest that she has had somebody do her hair for her for that day, which suggest she is rich and enjoys spending her wealth of looking good from the pearls shes wearing the cigarette she is smoking and the diner she is eating in her money is important to her and she uses it on a daily basis. the young boy in the first image however has barely any clothing on which isn’t entirely appropriate. he also has a haircut which is related to a harsh lifestyle (a Mohawk), this haircut also isn’t in the middle where it should be which indicates that someone who was untrained has given him this haircut and done a inadequate job of it, but again the laid-back attitude of these people is almost somewhat desirable as none of them seem to care about anything except in this picture, having a good time.