3º javier f & diego building the empire state

The most solidarity photographer

Diego Miramontes Otero Javier Fernández Méndez 1

Table of contents 1. Description of the image(3) 2. Story of the image 2.1.Javi’s description(4) 2.2.Diego’s description (4) 3. Author’s biography(5) 4. Formal analysis 4.1.Point of view(6) 4.2.Lighting(6) 4.3.Framing(6) 4.4.Cropping(6) 5. Feeding and meaning(7) 6. Bibliography(8)

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1. Description of the image We can see some labourers resting on a steel beam.They are smoking and eating. We think that the labourers are in his free time. The subject of the image are the labourers. In the background we see a big city with a lot of buildings and voc on the right there is a park with lakes and many trees. In the foreground we see a tackle with a rope. When the labournes finish their free time they will work again and then they will go home. The men we see aren`t scared in spite of the dangereux. They are very brave. They are dressed with working clothes and some men don’t have t­shirt because of the hot weather. They are happy and motivated because for the situation.

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2. Story of the image 2.1 Javi’s description I think that the labourers of the image are scared but they don’t say anything because they want to carry on working. I think that they are eating there because their free time is very short. The labourers are so brave because they don’t wear harness.

2.2 Diego’s description My opinion about the image is that the labourers are building a skyscraper and it is their wo moment of relaxation. I think that they have a minimum salary and they are very poor because that is the reason why, in spite of the danger, they go on working

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3. Author’s biography Lewis Wickes Hine was born in Wisconsin (1874) and died in New York (1940). He studied sociology in Chicago, Columbia and New York. During those years he worked as a teacher.Lewis Hine used his camera to investigate and to share information with other people. In 1908 Hine thought that photography was more than an art. He changed his way of taking photographies paying attention more to the artistic aspect than to the scientific one. Lewis Hine took pictures to the immigrants who came to the Ellis island. In 1932 he published Men and Work which is a photographic document of the Empire State.

Lewis W. Hine (Fotografía Robert W. Marks) 5

4. Formal analysis 4.1 Point of view The photographer’s point of view is over the building. The photographer was standing in a beam from the skyscraper. The picture was taken from above the labourers to give dangerous impression. 4.2 Lighting The lighting is natural, bright and diffused.The lighting comes from to the sun.

4.3 Framing In this picture the photographer included the labourers, the beam and in the background the buildings but he doesn't include the skyscraper.The photographer took this way so that we think that they don’t have anything below.

4.4 Cropping The photographer excludes the building. The cropping effect makes us fix our attention on the labourers and on the beam.

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5. Finding meaning The photographer’s purpose is that the picture use in a newspaper or in a magazine. The photographer want to take this picture for show the building’s height. The picture was taken in the past because now a days the labourers have a security harness.The picture says that the labourers were very poor in this period.

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6.Bibliography Image 1: http://www.granadablogs.com/pateandoelmundo/tag/lewis ­hine/ Image 2: http://www.elangelcaido.org/fotografos/hine/hine.html Web pages: http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/h/hine.htm http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hine

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