Analysis of Vietnam Memorial Photo

I chose the Vietnam Veterans Memorial photo because of the intense emotional feeling it gives me when looking at it. The mood provoked is a mood of sadness and mourning. There are so many features that emphasise sadness and pain and I think the way the photographer took the photograph makes them all evident.
The first thing that catches your eye is the man facing the wall. He is quite a dominant feature because the background is fairly plain so immediately the emphasis is put on him.His posture and his face buried in his hands suggest he is upset. Put that together with the fact that the wall he is looking at is a memorial wall for all those that died in the Vietnamese War and you could extend his upset stance to a tearful memory of a friend or family member that was a casualty. He has warm clothes on which means it must be cold and coldness is generally a miserable condition. This adds to the feeling of uneasiness.
The large amount of names on the wall tells us of the seve...