During Wednesdays’ lesson, we
discussed the importance of a narrative. According to Merriam Webster a
narrative is “having the form of a story”. We were asked to choose an image and
create one narrative without looking at the context of it.
One of the narratives I
thought of for this photo would be that the person in the position of the
photographer is the main character. Meaning that it’s from the main characters
point of view. I’m starting to think that this is a story about the main
character. Let’s say he was with them since they are looking at him maybe he
is leading them to somewhere. Being it’s in black and white could be during the
war and they are emigrating. It doesn’t matter if it’s cold outside if it is
not a safe place to live in. It also makes me think that at least one of these
people survived and is now telling his story which turned into this image.
The context of the image is
‘Mothers and children after selection
for the gas chamber’’. Now that I have a better idea of the time and place the
narrative easily changes. The main character now turned into a guard and he s
not the main character anymore because this is not about him. Now I feel it is
more focused on the people in the image and makes me wonder about them more. Did
they know what they were going into? How are they feeling? And like that, a new
narrative is created.
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| (Mothers and children after selection for the gas chamber, n.d.) |
Information Reference:
“Narrative.” The Merriam-Webster.com
Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narrative.
Image Reference:
Mothers and children after
selection for the gas chamber. (n.d.). [image] Available at:
https://www.mp.pl/auschwitz/photo-gallery/172211,historical-pictures [Accessed
21 Nov. 2019].
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