Wait For Me Daddy Photograph Analysis

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The photograph named “Wait for Me, Daddy” taken by Claude P. Dettloff on October 1, 1940 in New Westminster, British Columbia. This photograph was made the front page of the Vancouver Daily Province on October 2, 1940, and it had appeared in newspapers across North America and hung in every school in British Columbia during the war. In this photograph, all the soldiers and volunteers in BC Regiment were marching down on Eight Street in New Westminster to catch the waiting ship, the SS Princess Joan, to their unknown destination. As the consequence, BC Regiment’s secret destination was Nanaimo, then they had the training for years and were sent to France and Netherlands for the end of Second World War. The reason Canada decided to get involve …show more content…
When, viewers have their eyes on this photograph, they firstly are attracted the young boy running away from his mother to grab his father’s hand or the long line of the soldiers. According to this photograph, I will analyze the photograph by using the terms of Roland Barthes, which are Studium and Punctum. As viewers can see, this photograph “Wait for Me, Daddy” there is an incredibly long line of soldiers that looks so long for miles up to the hill and its seems never ending. Also, viewers can see the group of wives and families walking along the line, but most soldiers in the line have attention walking straight ahead and carrying their weapons at their sides with expressionless faces. Therefore, the way the soldiers’ act in this photograph can be considered as a symbolic of fire their lives to safe country because they do not carry their weapons over the should as a parade style and also they did not have any clue where they were going. Also, the front of this soldiers line, one soldier has his right hand outstretched to his son as the young-boy was running to grab his father’s hand, and other surrounding soldiers’ faces seem to be happy seeing this moment. As the description above, it links to the term of Studium, which means “the common banal meaning of the photographic image” (Sturken and Cartwright 462), regarding to the meaning of the Studium, it easily means that the range of
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