Creating the Hope of New Nigeria Through Photography: An Analysis and significance of the picture titled “City boy in the 60s”
The advancement in technology has made it possible for hardware device to be used to take photographs, to store images and videos and to use them to convey messages and to create sentiments of different kinds. Digital camera is one of such devices commonly used by both professional and non-professionals to produce automatic images of people and events. While digital cameras can be used to produce photographic images for recording keeping and as souvenir of special events some also use digital cameras to take photographs for publicity, journalism and editorials. The different motives for using digital camera to take photograph prompt me to examine 'Creating the Hope of New Nigeria through Photography. Analysis and Significance of The Picture titled “city boy in the 60s”.This means that photographic picture could be used to inspire hope and fashion a new people. I shall analyse the photo titled “city boy in the 60s” and then bring out the relevance of the picture to the socio-political context in Nigeria.
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