The audience targeted by this photograph consists of both
the government and American citizens.
The main purpose of the protest is to get the government to withdraw
from the Vietnam War. By photographing people protesting the war, the
photographer is sending a message to government officials that they do not have
support from the people. They wanted the
government to end both the draft and the war entirely. The photograph also targets individual people
by showing them an alternative to war. The
sign “Make Love Not War” embodies a hippie mentality, but reaches out to others
as well. It intends to get more American
citizens to protest the war. This
Anti-War mentality was not solely held by hippies. The hippies were a main contributor to the
movement, but more support from the American people was necessary. The photographer does a good job portraying
the urgency and desperation within the photograph to the audience. More Anti-War support was needed to make a
change. Eventually the draft was ended
and soldiers began returning from Vietnam.
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I liked how you mentioned that the targeted audience for this photo is not just the government, but the American people as well. Another thing is that the angle of which this photo was taken serves to capture multiple aspects of this protest which encompasses multiple events happening at the time.
ReplyDeleteThe image demonstrates the bold attitudes of these people to defy the popular war. The men are captured burning a paper that I assume is their draft notice, as a symbol of disapproval and is reinstated by the "Make Love Not War" poster. Apart from the government and law makers, I think that another targeted audience were the youths that were vulnerable to being drafted.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that there is a sense of desperation as the sight of flames -from the burning of the draft letter- does call for urgency to solve this issue. The support of the anit-war was not limited to the hippies, because the man on the right and people in the background do not fit the stereotype of a hippy.
-Njillan Sarre
I agree with your opinion of this photo too. I also think that by using this photo, the photographer is sending many ethos appeals to the government. It is saying to them not only do you not have the support of the American people, but you cannot fight this war without us. The protestors are knowledgeable enough to express that publicly. They even expressed an alternative to "make peace".
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In the third sentence your use of "the people" is too general. Be more specific. In sentence five I do not necessarily understand what you are referring to when you state, "The photograph also targets individual people by showing them an alternative to war." Do you mean that people coming together is an alternative to war? In sentence eight your language makes it seem as if hippies were not American people, too. Replace "American people" with "the average/general American citizen/population.
ReplyDeleteIn the picture, the words are "Make Love not War," which are very simple and attract many people since it is very easy to understand. It has a deep meaning behind it because it is describing the Vietnam War but can apply to daily life. The audience is very broad in this photo.
ReplyDeleteThis was used to show the US government that the its constituents do not enjoy what they are doing in Vietnam. Being the first televised war, for the american public to see their soldiers dying and losing was very hard.
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