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When looking into and reading this reading Clarke talks a lot about the meaning of an image relating back to Stadium and Punchum when looking at the small detail that give more information of the underlying meaning.

'Far from being a 'mirror', the photograph is one of the most complex and most problematic forms of representation. Its ordinariness belies its ambivalence and implicit difficulty as a means of representation.' 

Here Clarke talks about representation in photographs and how complex they are to a viewer. When seeing this quote it made me think of how I want viewers to see my representation of young women.

'Look at a second Diane Arbus image, A Family on their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, New York (1969) [8]. On the surface this is an image of an average New York suburban middle-class American family, but once again, the more we look at it the more its meaning changes, until it emerges not just as a definitive Arbus image, but as an almost iconic statement on the nature of suburban America. Spatially, for example, the geometry of the image is crucial. The lawn takes up two-thirds of the photographic space and indicates precisely the sense of emptiness, sterility, and dislocation that pervades the image. Equally, the trees at the back have a looming presence that suggests a haunting otherness.'

Continuing on from my thoughts of representation for my final images, this quote above also by Clarke, explains how there is more to this photo because by the placing of the people and the scenery behind them. Addressing how this could effect the main meaning of the photo and also the feelings between the people photographed.

Taking this into consideration for my own essay images, I think focusing on Punchtum when it comes to back ground and other objects in my photos could gave a viewer more information about the young women in the images but could also show representation of young teenage girls these days.