Having concentration on facial expressions of children in the two photographs, we can feel many different emotions. We can find out a number of stark contrasts from two photos even though both photographs depict the children who are almost in same age. One photograph is "Village School" which was taken by Margaret Bourke-White. Throughout the photograph, she wanted to show the harmful effects of wars so she included this picture in her own book, "Eyes on Russia", which was published in 1934. The other photograph is "Children's Puppet Theatre, Paris 1963" which was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Throughout this picture, she wanted to reveal the freedom of youth. In both pictures, one boy is the main center of interest but these two pictures have a number of different in moods.
In "Village School", the children are forced to seat in rows in cramped, dark room. All the children consist of only boys. It gives the deep impression that the mood is much stricter. The boy who is the foremost is the main center of interest but even the boy the face expression is same from the rest of other. The children have similar face expressions. All children just stare something and compress their lips. Furthermore, they have a scowl on their faces. Also every child in the picture is isolated from the rest of others. Seeing aspects of light, the light which is shining only focuses on the heads of the children. The rest of parts of the picture are too dark including children's bodies.
In "Children's Puppet Theatre", all children are standing up in freedom in the unlimited and bright outside. There are not regulations or pressures and children are just behaving as they please. The picture includes both boys and girls. The expressions on the faces of the children vary greatly. For example, looking at the boy who is focusing on something and pointing out something, his face expression is considerably different from other friends. The boy is the main center of interest in this picture. He is screaming with his mouth opening widely. Like this example, in the photograph, some are laughing out loud while some are screaming and a few are gazing in awe. Also every child in this picture plays with other child not being isolation. Looking at light, every part of the picture is shining even though the children are much brighter
In "Village School", the light is shining only on the boys' faces while in the other picture, whole part of the picture is brilliant. These makes we associate someone who is about to hang in effigy from the "Village School". In the past, when a criminal was put to death by hanging, a light was shining only his face. Seeing the Village School, The boys in the picture remind us of hangers. So we can foresee that the boys' future is not bright so the picture gives us a sense of frustration. In the first photograph, we feel gloomy, serious, and rigid. In the picture they are just frowning. Also every child in the picture is isolated from the rest of others. So we can also feel lonely, solitary. Otherwise, in the other picture, we can feel happy, playful, and vigorous and free because the children has no inhabitation. They just release their emotions, not having any limitation. Also every child in this picture plays with other child not being isolation. So we can also feel warm and genial.
Both works have a few things in common. But we can find out much many differences in two pictures. And these differences evoke very different atmospheres from each picture. We can discover a number of differences much easier, even though in both photographs, the main centers of interest are the same. In two pictures the light part is different and it makes different moods in each picture. One picture makes we feel frustrated because of the prospects dark future of the boys. In the first photograph, we feel dark feelings while, in the other picture, we can feel a kind of bright feelings such as freedom, happiness.
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