Personal Response

For our next project, I have decided to write about HONY because of the personal reactions I experienced with many of the photos. More specifically, I was able to relate to the photographs of families and people in relationships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory
Not a HONY picture, but fit the topic of discussion well.

I know people say that high school relationships don't last, but I met my significant other in 7th grade and we have been together since 8th grade. He is a baseball player, and is playing on a baseball scholarship out of state, so we've been in a long distance relationship since mid August. It's really hard being away from him, not because I can't be independent, but because being away from someone that really means a lot to you honestly just sucks. To get back on track though, seeing the pictures of different couples and the excitement in their faces, the intimate poses they are in, and reading their stories hits close to home since I'm also in a relationship. Sometimes I can even sympathize with them, and it reminds me that I may not be the only person experiencing certain feelings.

https://pixabay.com/en/family-children-sunset-silhouette-730320/
Also not a HONY picture, but I thought the shadows looked really cool. :)

Furthermore, I found Stanton's photos of families to also have an effect on me. My parents are divorced, so I live with my mom and grandparents. They have raised me my whole life and have always been by my side. While I'm not really all that far from home, it is again still hard to be away from the people that are closest to me. My curiosity also peaked when I realized many pictures Stanton takes are of women and their daughters/other children-- no father. It made me kind of interested to delve into that rhetoric and see whether it is just a coincidence or there is deeper meaning. For instance, there is a photo of a girl with her mother and they are wearing matching clothes, it suggests a strong bond between the two, and the lack of a male figure in the picture either suggests he is just not there for the photo, or maybe not there for them at all.

Regardless of what type of relationship Stanton is displaying in his photos, there is a purpose behind it, and where there is purpose, there is rhetoric just waiting to be analyzed. :-)

I commented on both Gabi's and Davis' posts.