The first image is an image called 'Sick Of Goodby's'. It is a black and white photograph of those words spray painted onto mirrors and the image is split into two parts the first with the words "sick of" on it with a hand holding a doll or toy below it. The second with two mirrors with a rectangular shape, one in front of the other, with the word "goodby's" painted on it with paint dripping down. The second image is called "Red#1" by Lorenzo Vitturi and in it, it depicts a tower of objects stacked on top of each other to make a tower made up of objects that are different tones of 'red'. The bottom of this tower is a 'red' brick that has strings laying on it and above this brick is a bright red object that has a cone like shape. Coming out of this object is a red flower and on top of this is more shapes like a sphere half made of brick and half of a red rock material. This makes the whole image very abstract and you have to try to figure out the meaning the meaning, whereas the first image, you can work out the underlying meaning as it has it written out in words, but both of these images are very unusual and abstract as they may not make sense at first to at all to a normal person.
There are many similarities and differences between these two images. Firstly the first image by Robert Frank focuses on the idea of portraying a message through the photograph through the use of words and text, whereas the second photograph by Lorenzo doesn't directly portray any messages and as the audience you are left to come up with a meaning and purpose of this image yourself. However this doesn't mean that the images don't have anything in common as the way that their compositions were made are the same as someone for both of these images would've had to set it up and take the picture so they would've had to take into consideration where everything went and the way they are put together. These images are also both very abstract and surreal because at first when you look at them, the purpose and meaning of the whole image isn't clear. They also both use space well as in the first image they took two landscape images and put them together to make a portrait image where it also shows the words in the middle ground of the two different parts, but in the middle is an arm, holding a doll like object which creates a very strange and unsettling feeling about the whole image and that is what I find most interesting about it.
In the second image, it has the structure or sculpture on a risen platform in the middle ground with the platform being the foreground. The background is made of two different colours and materials that gives the whole picture more texture and colour. What I find most interesting about it, is how random the objects all are and why they're put together.
The use of edges is very prominent in both of the images as in the first image you can see that it focuses on straight and sharp edges as there are very few curved or rounded edges. This is different in the second image as it has both straight and round edges all put together and this makes the whole compositions have more dimension and texture. I think that these images can help me understand the relationships between edges and photography better because they use different edges to achieve very different effects. If I were able to meet the photographers of these images I would ask them why they chose to use these specific objects and what was the messages they were trying to portray through their photograph was.
I think that if I were to give the first image another title it would be "reflecting" as it will represent the ideas of reflecting on the feelings of saying goodbye to someone or something and it will link to the reflections in the mirror. For the second image I think I would call it "possibility" because I think it is trying to portray the idea of anything being possible like a flower growing from a brick. If I were to be in the first image I think the overall feeling would be very sad and lonely as it is very dark and has the ideas of saying goodbye to someone or something . The other image however is very different as it will make me very confused if I was in it as it doesn't make much sense to me, but I don't think I will be either sad or happy, just very confused. I think that these images were made for very different intents and the messages they were trying ti communicate is also very different as the first image shows ideas of loneliness and how goodbyes are usually not a "good" thing whereas the message of the second image is a little unclear to me