Gottfried Helnwein Response

Describe the image as closely as you can.  Write your description on your Blog. What do you think is going on here?  Is this an artistic image or a documentary image (or both)? Is the image Photoshopped? Try to assign meaning to the image. What do you think the photographer's intent was? What does the image say to you? How does the difference in scale between the man and the girl's face add to your interpretation of the photograph?

 

      This image has a man which looks like he is on a child's strand of hair. I don't quite understand what is going on in this picture but the child looks scared or sad because of the facial emotion.  This image looks like an artistic image because of the tiny strands in the child's eyebrow and eyelashes  it looks very detailed with pencil or paint and the shadows on the nose look shaded in. I think the meaning of this painting is surrounded by the fact of abuse and sadness. I think the photographers intent of this picture was to show how the child is scared and afraid. The scale between the man and the girl adds to my interpretation because it shows how the man is apart of her and climbing on her.