PART ONE: Analyze Photo Read in SMG chapter 28: Analyzing Visuals XXXXXXXXXXPay particular attention to the Criteria for Analyzing Visuals on pages XXXXXXXXXX, and how the sample student completed the...

Fire Escape Collapse
Part 1: Visualization
The picture shows two individuals, a child and a young woman falling from the collapsed fire escape of an apartment that is burning on Marlborough Streets in Boston on July 22, 1975. The image is a monochrome taken by a motorized camera. Fire Escape Collapsed also knows as Fire on Marlborough Street consists of nineteen-year-old Diana Bryant and her 2-year-old niece Tiare Jones. This scene is also evident in the picture where there is chaos, signs of calamity, and anxiety in the environment. The woman’s hand is placed and the angle left to right of that hand railing comparison to the angle of the roof.
Despite narrating a tragic event, the photograph mostly is light-toned and so, is high-key. It is surprising to notice that there is a contradiction between the tone set and that is evident in the photograph. The two women in the photo, Diana Bryant and her niece Tiare Jones were waiting along with a fireman on the fifth floor of their apartment. The rhetoric has it that the city of Boston took to major activity within twenty-four hours of this tragedy. It is indeed horrific to imagine that the photograph brought home the third eye view of escape which leads to death. It is evident that the picture depicts something characteristic of slum life and portrayed the dangers of fire escape. The social context has it that a systemic failure is fatal and screams of injustice. The story responds to the fact that the building perhaps was denied social safety and security.
Intertextuality: The photograph might have done so to avoid external interferences and only record the aspects of American bravery. While he does that excellently, he misses the fact that systematic failure to reduce fire escapes is also important to be highlighted.
Part 2: Essay
The words that read, “I was shooting as they were falling-then I turned away. It dawned on me what was happening, and I did...