Atlas and The World in One’s Hand

I was finally able to take the picture that I had envisioned since the assignment was first assigned. The photo was taken while I was passing by an empty classroom at City tech, in NYC. The picture displays a globe in my left hand, above a brown desk. The globe is of the planet Earth, which contains the color blue for water, and multiple colors for every country. the dominant impression you get is of the beauty of this planet. The reason I chose this picture was because the globe represents all the problems of the world, and when u take a step back, you realize how small those problems really are. The framing cuts off the rest of the table so that more focus is put on the globe. The reality effect you get from the photo is in the details you are able to see in the globe. Details such as the boundary lines of every country, to the longitudinal lines.

The photograph of a statue holding up what seems to be a globe was taken on March 14, 2014. It was during the evening when I passed by Rockefeller Center, midtown Manhattan New York City. on my way to the movies I saw a bronze statue carved in the shape of a man struggling to hold up an empty globe. The sculpture depicts the Ancient Greek Titan Atlas holding the heavens. Atlas is 15 feet tall, while the entire statue is 45 feet tall. There are some symbols on the globe. The statue is also in front of a building which is tan and allows the viewer to really focus on the statue even more. The building contains several windows that look blue. This is why I took the photo in that angle, so that blueness from the windows makes the globe look more like the world. Atlas struggles daily just like we all do as we try to live our lives. The dominant impression is of a man struggling to hold up the world. It reminded me of the struggles I go through in life and how I carry them on my shoulders. I took the photo right in front of it and looking up. The reality effect is the overwhelming size of the statue and the globe it’s holding up.