Aug 20, 2020
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Analysis of a Photograph
Michael Wolf’s Tokyo Compression #39 in his Tokyo Subway Dream series is an intriguing photograph for textual analysis because of the contradictory elements present in the image, offering two different readings of the same image concurrently. The photograph can be read as an image of a woman’s desire to escape through the window of the claustrophobic subway and as a woman afraid of the…
