In class: Analyzing Visuals

My attention is immediately drawn to the little girls face. Though she is holding a cigarette, thats not the first thing I focus on in the picture. I think its because she looks so casual holding the cigarette, like she has been smoking for a long time. Her face looks a little tired and stressed in some ways. Like she is already worried about life and its outcomes, and she never really lived as a kid. her hair is kinda fuzzy and out of whack, like she has had a hard life. Next the picture is black and white. This element of the picture makes it seem all the worst. Not that black and white pictures are bad, but in this case it adds to the negative effect and feel of the picture. Here you have a young girl standing with another little girl, and she is smoking a cigarette. I think this picture is about the challenges and hardships that even little kids go through on a daily basis. The adversities they must overcome to even have a chance to be successful are viewed in a good light. I think the purpose of this image is to persuay smokers and non-smokers, to not want to smoke. Maybe to show what smoking makes you look like, are what it could do to your kids. Maybe its a depiction of what second hand smoke could do to your kids are children in general. I think the entire purpose of this image is to put smoking cigarettes in a negative view.