This is my first attempt at photocollaging. In this collage, I was hoping to show how the corporate media portrays the bad things that happen within our country. They will tone down the seriousness of events in which human rights are being violated, Americans are not being viewed as heroes, or of events that the media is unsure of how the people will react to them. The juxtaposition of flowers with U.S. Marines in action, an endless blockade of riot cops, and repeated images of one of the torture victims at the Abu Ghraib prison attempt to make the images more tame due to a flower's symbolic connotation. The torture victims almost blend into the floral background as if they are unimportant and should forget about them, but the solders and cops are still as clear as day, and despite what surrounds them, you still have to ask yourself: why do they always look so intimidating?
This is the same collage after I went back and messed around with it a little bit. I didn't even touch color alteration or addition of any type in the first collage, so I wanted to work with it a bit. This is much unlike any of my other work, in the sense that it has an almost popart (pop ART not poptart) essence to it. This collage even further inforces my point of how the corporate media wishes to portray incidents as mentioned above. Juxtaposition and repetition are important aspects in this collage, and i tried to push them as much as possible.
This is my first attempt at photocollaging. In this collage, I was hoping to show how the corporate media portrays the bad things that happen within our country. They will tone down the seriousness of events in which human rights are being violated, Americans are not being viewed as heroes, or of events that the media is unsure of how the people will react to them. The juxtaposition of flowers with U.S. Marines in action, an endless blockade of riot cops, and repeated images of one of the torture victims at the Abu Ghraib prison attempt to make the images more tame due to a flower's symbolic connotation. The torture victims almost blend into the floral background as if they are unimportant and should forget about them, but the solders and cops are still as clear as day, and despite what surrounds them, you still have to ask yourself: why do they always look so intimidating?
This is the same collage after I went back and messed around with it a little bit. I didn't even touch color alteration or addition of any type in the first collage, so I wanted to work with it a bit. This is much unlike any of my other work, in the sense that it has an almost popart (pop ART not poptart) essence to it. This collage even further inforces my point of how the corporate media wishes to portray incidents as mentioned above. Juxtaposition and repetition are important aspects in this collage, and i tried to push them as much as possible.
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