Answer to Question #251201 in Philosophy for Mhica

Question

Are the photograph of malnourished girl by John Silva(1985) and John Abong by Kim Komenich (1985) are Art? What do you think are the functions of these photographs? Discuss and Explain. Evaluate the photograph using one philosophical perspective on art .

Answer 1

Yes, it is an art because it is an image of a weak famine-stricken child, who had slumped in the foreground with a hooded vulture observing him from close. Photographs of a 5-year-old girl's remarkable change drive home the actual scope of Somalia's food problem.