How a photo can promote social change

     These two photos are by W. Eugene Smith. The top photo being a result of mercury poisoning, and the bottom photo is a spanish family, living on poverty. To me, both of these photos could promote social change. The top photo is showing what mercury poising can do and what it has done to this little boy. There are other photos from that series as well, which really impact the viewer. I believe that this photo has the power to have social change because it has a sense of fear. When people view this photo, they are afraid of the possibility of that happening to them. I also feel that since this boy was a result of the mercury poising in the water, people would be infuriated. The fact that some people have the power to do something like this to others, and don't even help the individuals that were affected do make people mad, and people will try to help them. Or people will attack the people who are dumping the mercury into their water supply.
     As for the second photo, it will effect change by bringing sympathy into the emotion of the photo. The bottom photo really shows displays the poverty in Spain. This family is preparing for a wedding and they can't even get clothing for the children. It makes me feel sad, so I can imagine the amount of people who can relate to their situation and would want to help. The difference between the rich and the poor has already sparked up protests and revolutions all over the world, and photos like these are physical proof of how people actually live. Photos are really worth 1000 words.

     Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent (and the first female permitted to work in comb

     This photo was the cover for a time magazine. This photo is from Liberty Island in New York Harbour to the gates of Buchenwald. Margaret Bourke-White Seems to like to capture in the moment photographs. This photo seems so capture how hard it really was for the people who aren't in the upper class. She like to capture how life really is. The rough times of the common people. Margaret seems to advocate for equality. Anything from social equality and racial equality.

Mark Brown:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/272819689897170462/

1. This image is a silhouette.

2. I think the photographer metered near the light in the photo. By metering on the light, it brings out the contrast in the photo, and darkens the dark subjects.

3. I think the Photographer was going for a very creepy or mysterious mood.

4. If Mark Brown metered on the darkness of the photo, then the photo would become very bright. You would be able to see the details of the subject in the photo, and the background would become very bright.

Wendy Laurel

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/234327986831596516/

     1.  This image is a backlit photo.

   

  2.  I think the photographer metered on the feet of the people or the chair/couch legs. If they had metered on the light in the background, the subjects of the photo would have become silhouettes.

    

 3. I think Wendy L. was going for an at home, warm feeling/mood. 

   

  4. If they had metered on the light in the background, the subjects of the photo would have become silhouette. Personally I don't think that by changing it to a silhouette would change the mood very much. The only difference would be that you wouldn't be able to tell what is going on in the photo.