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Photographer : Henri Carter Bresson

Title: The Var department


Time & Place: France 1932

S ubject What is the subject or content of the image?

E lements How has the artist/photographer used visual


elements or design principles in his/her composition?

M edia What media has been used Do you think it is


effective?

I ntentions Why has the artist/photographer made this


image What message or meaning does the image have?
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF USING THE S.E.M.I TO ANALYSIS A PHOTOGRAPH
The main visual qualities or elements
of this image is Line and tone. The

S The dual subject of this image is a


figure in a cityscape. The scene
depicts a staircase in the
foreground and a man on riding on
his bike in the background left hand E
artist has chosen an unusual
composition focusing on the railings of
a spiral staircase. This creates a
leading line structure in the
composition which draws the viewers
corner of the frame. eye around the whole image to the
main figure on a bike racing off to the

M left.

ThE photographers intention was to


The
The media used was traditional use the leading line compositional
black and white photography technique to make our eyes
using a dark room to process travel through the space to create
the image. a sense of movement.

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