Auschwitz 65 Years Later

- Consider the use of vectors, line, contrast, composition, colour, and perspective (there are more techniques) -
- How can the visual elements in the photo evoke empathy and reverence from a viewer?
- How is Auschwitz represented in this photo?
- Find another photo of Auschwitz that you feel has an important representation of this place that caused so much pain and destruction. Analyse the use of visual techniques which make it particularly engaging. How does it represent this location?

1) The use of line of barbed wire seeming like an endless fence where people were enslaved for the whole time of the war. 

2) The lighting and colour reflects a lonely and sad place where people were slaughtered for no good reason but simply because they were Jews. 

3) The perspective of where the shot is taken shows how big the concentration camp is the shot also helps you see how big this place is, how many people were imprisoned there and shows nothing else but the camp making it gloomy and boring. 

4) The whole photo reflects the pain and anguish people would have experienced there. 

5) The geometric shapes reflects the Nazi culture and how they lived

The visual aspects in the photo shows the viewer how dark and sad this place was and still is because of the events that had taken place there makes the viewer feel sorry and sad for all the Jews that were ever enslaved and killed in this concentration camp. 

Auschwitz is represented in a dark place which is uninviting and gives us a sense of loneliness. 

Even though this photo of Auschwitz concentration camp is black and white the use of line (barbed wire) gives us a sense that the Jews were under maximum security and that they were been punished by being put in an uninviting place. All the fences around the camp represents the seriousness of the German soldiers that would have been placed in watch towers near these fences. This photo depicts Auschwitz very well because of all the visual aspects shown in this photo.