Children's Book Illustration:
Amazon Diary: The Jungle Adventures of Alex Winters
by Hudson Talbott and Mark Greenberg

This visual interpretative analysis is designed by Amy Marie Keller

What does this illustration communicate to viewers?

Study the sample illustration from: Amazon Diary: The Jungle Adventures of Alex Winters by Hudson Talbot and Mark Greeberg. Photography by Mark Greenberg. (NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.) It is best to examine the entire book to see the interrelationships established among the illustrations, photographs, and text.

It is important to read the accompanying text to this illustration.

 

Choose the answer that reflects your interpretation of the illustration:

 

  • The children express fear because a photographer has intruded.
  • The children are curious upon experiencing mass media.
  • The Yanomamis are not ashamed of nude children.

    • This page contains information on Hudson Talbott and Mark Greenberg .

    This page contains information on The Amazonia Foundation and the Yanomamis.

    This page contains the photo as it appears in the second edition of the book.

    This page contains information on excerpts from selected reviews of this book.

    This page contains information on photographic technique.

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    Created March 17, 1999 Last Reviewed and Updated March 27, 1999