Activity 2

Find two landscape photographs that question social values or act as a metaphor for personal issues that the photographer is trying to express. Discuss whether the communication is clear or ambiguous and how this communication is conveyed.

Example: What does the image below say about humans need to control the environment? Or, does it indicate an attempt to recreate a time long past and remind people of their outdoor beginnings? What do you think? Does it say anything different?

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In these photos, I feel that the photographers are trying to express the need to preserve nature. How man is destroying it and that it needs to be left alone. These two photos show the New York High Line that use to be railroad tracks but went unused. So then nature took over and grew over and around it.  But instead of letting nature grow New York build over it, only letting some of it to thrive. I feel that the communication is very clear. You can clearly see how the buildings are taking over where nature use to be.

Anna Wad