Analysing Images

1. Analysing Images
using specialist vocabulary

2. Analysing Images
• Learn subject specific language
for analysing photographs.
• Use specialist vocabulary to
discuss and write about images.

3. Steve McCurry
Bruce Davidson
Content
- the subject, topic or information captured in the image.

4. Subject
- the main object or person in the photograph.
Steve McCurry
Martin Parr

5. Subject
- the main object or person in the photograph.
Steve McCurry
Martin Parr
Look at the photograph and identify
the subject.

6. Central Focus
- what appears most prominently or most clearly focused
in the photograph.
Steve McCurry
Robert Doisneau

7. Central Focus
- what appears most prominently or most clearly focused
in the photograph.
Steve McCurry
Robert Doisneau
Look at the photograph what is the
central focus.

8. Intention
What do you think the
photographers intention
was when he took this
photograph?
Robert Doisneau – ‘The café’ 1958

9. Intention
- why the artist made the work.
Sebastiao Salgado

10. Intention
- why the artist made the work.
Sebastiao Salgado
What do you think the intention of the
photograph is?

11. Context
- the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or
idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood.
Bruce Davidson

12. Context
- the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or
idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood.
Bruce Davidson
Are there any clues in the photograph
to what the context is?

13. Lucinda Chua
Steve McCurry
Setting
- actual physical surroundings
or scenery whether real or
artificial.

14. Lucinda Chua
Steve McCurry
Setting
- actual physical surroundings
or scenery whether real or
artificial.
Describe the setting of the
photograph.

15. Subject:
Central Focus:
Intention:
Context:
Setting:
Alexej Titarenko
Old Lady Sits on Sidewalk 1999