1. Analyzing Images:
Documentary/ News Photograph
ENC 1101 Composition 1

2. What Analyzing Does
• Shapes the way we feel
• Feelings are from cultural and historical events

3. Questions To Ask While Analyzing
Documentary Photographs
• What was photographer’s original intention?
• What was the original historical, social, cultural, and political context
of the photo?
• Where was the photograph originally viewed?
• How does the title reflect the context of the image?
• How does the photograph’s appearance influence you?

4. Examining The Effects Of A Photo On A
Viewer
• Examine this photo and think…
• What words come to mind?
• What is the mood or feeling?
• What is it trying to get you to
feel?

5. Taken From Allyn & Bacon
A Guide To Writing pp. 171-182