Rosa Parks Visual Analysis

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Emphasis: Parks use of different contrast of straight lines, shapes, color, contrast, texture, curves, that emphasize contrast, drawing your attention to his image, His pictures indicate the use of ancillary lines that puts the focus to the same area, producing a vibrant shape and focal point. Parks is virtuous at segregating darks, lights and contrast, which forms emphasis. Therefore, this adds additional drama his photographs. Another way is his use emotion, emphasis his image. Moreover, by using texture as his background, he created an exciting and emotion-filled composition. And with the correct use of texture, pictures can become more alive and almost three and with the visual equivalent to the sense of touch. Park uses exquisite unified …show more content…
Parks is virtuous at segregating darks, lights and contrast, which forms emphasis. Therefore, this adds additional drama his photographs. Another way is his use emotion, emphasis his image. Moreover, by using texture as his background, he created an exciting and emotion-filled composition. And with the correct use of texture, pictures can become more alive and almost three and with the visual equivalent to the sense of touch. Park uses exquisite unified composition in order to show unity in his images. The use of simplicity, balance, variation, and melodious in creating his images, this can be seen in all of his images. Parks manipulates brightness, contrast, different lens and focal points along with artificial means (this is done in the darkroom), uses dodge and burn to enhance certain parts of his image. In some of Parks images, it appears to me that he fashions an ambiguous structure that has not a one single focal point by positioning a diversity of points; this enticements attention to the whole image Parks utilizes backlighting to emphasize the mood of the images, the use of focal point is critical when you want to emphasize a specific area of the photograph. Without emphasis, your eye tends to wander and is never

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