Stan Grossfield Famine In Ethiopia Analysis

In the attempt to bring light to the widespread death from starvation in Ethiopia in 1985, Stan Grossfield captured this photo of a starving mother and her child and he called this”Famine in Ethiopia”. After visiting the Ethiopians he was feeling extreme sadness over the struggles he saw.While this image may seem visually simple, this image has a powerful emotional effect on others, winning the Pulitzer Prize of 1985. Stan Grossfield photographed the "Ethiopian" which references madonna and child and also demonstrates the lack of food towards family especially children at that time. Grossfield took the photo to show what was happening and to strongly encourage people to do something. The surrounding conditions where the image is displayed brings sadness and silence to people.
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The look in the child's face, a look of hopelessness and feeling that there is no hope, makes the image more personal and brings out a sense of sympathy and horror within the viewer. It is this emotional response, and ability to cause change, that drew me to this photograph and that, I believe, caused it to win a Pulitzer Prize. While maybe one can see Grossfeld as being dishonest and wrong, in that he photographed these people instead of saving them, in the long run, this image was able to influence others to help and make a change to feed children and families who are unfortunate. It is this emotional power that the photograph has over its viewers that makes it so great.
The purpose of this is to show the good and bad of the world. These images will get you feeling happy to feeling sad in just a couple of seconds. This photo that is displayed is showing the emotions that the camera wants us to see. What makes this photograph different from many others taken of other widespread death was that child was in the center. Rarely do you see a starving child appearing to be making eye contact with the viewer, it immediately makes this photo more