COMPARING

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In both images, you can see they’re related, for they both have a car in the image, but the photographers have created a different feeling across from my perspective.

The left image by Lee Friedlander has an interesting viewpoint. Where it makes the viewer feel inside, but outside at the same time, giving the image more depth and structure. The car door is closed; it feels like a wall of division between the inside & outside landscape. However, the image on the right has a more distant viewpoint. Both of these different viewpoints produce different emotions for me. Friedlander image feels more personal and close, whereas the other image feels distant, lonely and cold.

They do have another thing in common, where they both don’t have any people in the images. They show peoples possessions and the living environment against the natural landscape that surrounds them. But by doing this, it makes it feel like a ghost town and cold. Like they are in the middle of nowhere.

The landscape that surrounds the cars looks vast and wide, especially in Robert Adams image on the right. The use of negative space in the sky enhances the isolation of this suburban town, allowing the viewer’s eye to focus on the car. Whereas Friedlander image is fill up with different subjects making it more busy and loud, rather than the other one is quiet.