Portraiture Task

Between these two portraits they both emphasis the human body in a unusual way. The first one is a photograph of an x-ray or a photograph that was mocked to look like a x-ray. With the second image it was taken with a human subject but has different filters on it to give it a peculiar effect. Maybe a posterize, black and white, or both effects were used. The first image tells me that the person who had the x-ray done had a deformity or maybe an illness that effected their body majorly. The second image tells me a story of a younger aged african-american. Visual clues for the first one would be that its an x-ray. This shows that there is something wrong with the subject being photographed because you only get x-rays taken if something is wrong. I think it gives a little insight on the photographer by leading you to believe he/she knows a person who is ill, is ill, or maybe believes in causes working for ill people. For the second image, the tight cropping gives me clues to what I think is emphasis on discrimination towards african-americans. I think the photographer was trying to tell the viewers that non-african-americans only see african-americans for their skin color. This could reveal that the photographer has dealt with discrimination or knows someone who has been discriminated towards.