week 5 blog

I chose to analyze the picture of Yonehisa Yamagami, the electrician. When I look at this picture my eye is drawn to the man’s face, the reason my eye is drawn to his faces is because that is the focal point of the picture. In this image, the man seems happy or at least content in what he is doing. The setting of this picture is evidently at the area where this man was working, I can see wires in the background so that is why I am assuming that it is at his place of work. In this image the man is smiling and he is smoking a cigar which implies to me that he is enjoying what he is doing. He is also wearing nice close which leads me to believe that he is living relatively well. I think this picture was taken to show people that these camps aren’t as bad as many people like to believe they are. This image doesn’t really fill my body with emotions, it makes me feel alright, knowing that this man appears to be happy with being an electrician. I feel this way because it doesn’t appear that he is discontent or bothered by being in this camp. Since Adam did coach this man on how to pose, I believe that makes this picture an unreliable source of how life really was in this camp. I think the people who wrote about the camps, wrote about times that were more difficult and not as happy as the images depicted.