Friday, October 3, 2014
It's Simply Logical: the Logos in the Flower in the Gun
While the message the photographer was trying to get across was mostly emotional, there is still an appeal to reason. The photograph is framed to show more guards than protestors. This makes it so the police presence seems disproportionately large. The photographer is trying to assert that the government is overreacting to the peaceful protestors and trying to stifle the antiwar movement. It is not reasonable to point rifles at someone with a flower. He is trying to show that the soldiers and the war they represent are simply illogical and should be stopped.
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I thought it was great how you talked about the large number of soldiers in the photograph compared to the one protester being unreasonable and representative of how the soldiers were overreacting. I think you should have mentioned how the protester holding the flower was a young woman. Not only is the photographer showing it wrong to shoot somebody holding a flower, but a woman holding a flower especially. Young women and flowers both represent the same things, innocence and beauty.
ReplyDeleteI think that the symbolism of the woman is more emotional than logical.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there isn't much of an appeal to logos in the picture, but something about this post just feels very, erm, terse, if I had to put a word on it? I wish I could point out exactly what it is that bothers me about this post, but all the short sentences just feel abrupt to me.
ReplyDeleteI think everything Mark said here is correct, even if it is understandably short. This photograph is very emotionally charged, but the disconnect between the soldiers and the peaceful protesters clearly makes the viewer think in emotional, as well as logical terms. I think it might also be said that the protest (specifically the soldiers threatening innocents) mirrors the war in Nam. If the soldiers here in America are unjustly threatening the civilians here in America, logically one wonders what sort of atrocities might be committed in a foreign country, where there is not really any kind of check on the soldiers.
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