Pulitzer Prize Photo Exhibition
Today I went to Seoul Art Center and see Photo Exhibition. There were quite more people than I ‘d expected. Anyways, it was my first time going to photo exhibition. There were a lots of pictures there, and most of them were about disasters, mainly war and fight. The first photo I saw was taken in 1950s, and it was about one people hitting another because their opinions were different.
Almost all of the pictures were showing the reality of fights, and even killings. One of the picture that gave me the strong impression was about a man’s corpse hanging on the tree, while other man was hitting the corpse furiously. I could see other people who are staying back watching, smiling, or even laughing. I think many pictures I saw today were showing us the human’s cruelty. I saw a lot of people having a same reaction with the people who was watching a man’s corpse; smiling and laughing at people’s death.
Other memorable pictures are about children. The children in the pictures all looked so terrified and sad. There was a picture of one naked little girl crying and running away from the smoke with other young kids. At explanatory column, it was written that the bomb had accidently fell at a civilian’s town during the war, and the girl ripped the clothes that were burning and ran out of the town, crying for help. There was another picture of a small girl screaming at her 7 years old brother’s corpse. Wars that are happened by adults took children’s everything away.
I think most peaceful pictures are the crowds cheering for Babe Ruth at his last ceremony, and two kids with different races shaking hands together in the same classroom. For the second picture, it was the first day for African-American kids to go to same school, and while the parents were protesting, disagreeing for that, two kids are smiling, I guess that they had decided to be friends together.
Going to Pulitzer Photo Exhibition made me think about good pictures. I thought good pictures were those that make others satisfied, but after watching this exhibition, I realized that maybe the good pictures have stories in it, and shows the real world, not the fake world that we all dream of.
