John Wood Photography Exhibit

The photography museum was a lot more interesting then I thought it would be. I think the exhibit was very unusual. The first photograph that we looked at really got me to see that a photgraph is worth a thousand words. When we first looked at it I was like ok its a photo of flowers with a gun in the middle. Whats the big deal with that? It was really cool that the photgraph was more then that. Once we started talking about the photograph I realized how reflective of the time period it was. The whole Vietnam era is one of my favorite times in American history. So many amazing works of art came out during that time. I think John Wood's photgraph really speaks about the differing opinions that people developed during the Vietnam war. It was a constant battle between people who wanted America out of the war and those who wanted to fight and be involved in it. I think the gun in the photgraph represents the soldiers that were fighting and the people that were pro-war. The daisies made me think of the hippies that wanted peace. I think that the photograph can also be seen in another way. Hippies protested against the war and many times those protests ended in violence. I think the gun could also represent the police. The whole photograph could be representing the battle that hippies had to go through to try and get their anti-war message across. I think that when a photograph or a piece of art gets you thinking about things like this then its really a great work. I think that true art doesn't have a specific meaning. I think art that represents many different opinions is truly great art.