Newark Riverfront Park
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Newark Riverfront Park
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The sixth image is that of people on the newly created boardwalk at Riverfront Park. Riverfront Park is a new twelve-acre park that, as the name states, sits up next to the Passaic River. The boardwalk was built a year after the completion of the park itself, which was 2012, and is the first available public access point to the river. The picture contains framing techniques that create the image of a spectacular boardwalk on the edge of a stereotypical poor and dull city. People of all ages and ethnicities are in this photo. A man with tattoos shows compassion as he puts a Caucasian woman’s dog with a little boy. Media stereotypes people that have tattoos as thuggish and ghetto, which makes the picture ironic as this man is bending down and petting an excited dog. A Hispanic boy and a Caucasian boy are sitting on one edge of the boardwalk and appear to both be looking at something in the distance, showing comradery between people of two different ethnicities. An older man is playing with a young kid in the grass on the hill. A family all seems to be bonding together, leaning over the railing, gazing across the river. Ethnographic effects are used in this photo because the camera distance is close enough that the audience can see the faces and clothing of most of the people in the image. Everyone’s body posture and position is relaxed and open, showing signs of comfort and satisfaction. The photographer successfully used children, family, and animals to gain sympathy from the audience and create an image of a beautiful and fun place for people of all kinds to go.
