The power of a photograph

"Abbey Road"

The photo I chose is one of The Beatles. I think it's the most known picture of them.On it we can see that they are on a street called Abbey Road and that they are walking on a zebra crossing. The one that is dressed with a white suit is John Lennon, the other one, dressed in black, is Ringo Starr, then it goes Paul McCartney and finally George Harrison. 

This photo is the cover of their last album, called "Abbey Road" in honour of the street. Initially it was going to be called "Everest" and they were preparing a photoshot in the Himalayas. On the background we can see a white "beatle" Volkswagen. It became famous and finally it was sold in an auction for 2,300 pounds.

The street is situated in Westminster, London. Nowadays there's a camera installed there and you can see the people that walks along it. The plate of the street's name was stolen by some fans.

The photo was spontaneous, because they didn't prepare the place to do the photoshot or their clothes. They just went out of their studio while the photographer, Ian McMillan, took photos of them. It was taken the 8 of August in 1969, and now it has become a tradition to cross that road every 8 of August.

I chose this picture because I wanted to talk about something that I really like: the music, and The Beatles are really important and famous in that world. Also because it's a very known photo.

Carla Martínez

4t B

The power of a photograph

Hiroshima photograph 360º

After the atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima in 1945, Harbert F. Austin Jr. took a photo of the city remains covering all 360º.

In it we can see a dramatic scene about the effect of a war which destroyed a whole city and most of the people who were in it, although they were innocent.

It's apowerful and striking photograph because it shows us how devasting the attack was, that it only left mounts of trash.

In this part of the image there are a few people walking through a road surrounded by the ruins. I think this makes the place even lonelier because they may have returned to observe the rests where they used to live or to try to recognize something,but they don't really expect anything, they know that they won't find anything in good condition or alive,and it makes it look empty and sad.

There are the ruins of some buildings which stand out against the unrecognizable burned wooden houses. In this photo we can't see it, but the radiation left marks on some of the walls and if there were people in front of them (facing the explosion) they left their figure on the wall, what is quite disturbing.
This (...) is the Genbaku Dome. It's the emblem of the disaster because it was the nearest building to the explosion.
Well, about why I chose this photo, only because I searched on Google a photo with its author and I got this one which covered all 360º and I found it curious and unusual. But after I finished writing the summary of what I'd say, I think I understand a bit of the suffering that wars can cause.

Marina Navarro

4t B

The power of a photograph

The photo I've chosen was taken in 2003, in a bunker during a war in Leban. The name of the photographer is unknown, because he or she was arrested for taking photos during the war. Anyway, that person managed to upload this photo which is now in the archives of National Geographic.
I think that this photo caught my attention because of its contrasts: in this photo, you can see two different worlds in the same place but in different moments, and the situation of each world is completely different of the other.
The image shows a soldier, with a sad and tired expression, alone, and waiting to decide whether to kill or to die. That soldier is in a dirty and uncomfortable bunker, which makes that anyone who watches this picture can directly stare at poverty's and injustice's eyes. The sky in the photograph is grey and cloudy, like it was "affected" for the situation of that lonely soldier. But those grey and dark tones are broken just in the middle by a giant and colourful funfair. Just there is where we can see the two worlds: the world of adults and the world of kids, world of colours and world of grey, world of war and world of peace; and the world that a soldier sees from a war and the world that a little boy can see from the funfair.
That photo is very dramatic because of the detail of that funfair, because it makes it different from all the other war pictures. If there were only the bunker, the sadness and the soldier it would be just another "disturbing" picture of a war somewhere in the world. But the funfair seems to be looking at that man and maybe, a few years ago, he was in that funfair watching to the place where now he is fighting against his free will.

Julia Gallego, 4B