Connotative: is the suggestion or association of an image. This can have implying or suggestive power over an image and is in addition to what is explicit. They are informed by the cultural and historical contexts of the image and felt knowledge of those circumstances. What is means to the viewer personally.
The Denotative of this image is a man and a woman helping children onto a train as they are escaping from unknown source.
The Connotative of this image is from a movie titled Rosewood. The historical relevance of the image depicts blacks (women and children) trying to escape Rosewood from a city wide cleansing of blacks in 1923. This was due to a lie started by a white woman that I black man had raped her. Millions were hung, burned, and slaughtered, this is one of the less grizzly images of that day.
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