What is this post?: Choose an example from Greenfield’s “Thin” series or Mary Ellen Mark’s “Ward 81” to describe and interpret. Post the example with a full citation on your blog.
Ward 81, Oregon State Hospital,
Salem, Oregon, 1976
300B-027-030
As I have previously mentioned in my other blog posts, one of my favorite factors used in photography is capturing emotion. While most of the time emotion of a human is interpreted by one’s facial expression, this is not always the case. And thus the reason for my choosing fo this photograph is because the emotion expressed in this image is purely through body language. The context of the environment leads one to eel a sense of loneliness, while the subjects positioning and tightened hands expresses a feeling of being trapped and frustrated.