Visual Analysis of Eudora Welty's One Time,One Place

Eudora Welty's One Time,One Place snapped Mississippi featuring Jackson,Hinds County,Yazoo County,Utica and so on.These photographs of daily life stories,most of which were taken without the awareness of the people photographed,show an aesthetic vi-sion that reveals the real life of Mississippi in the 1930 s.They also show that a fiction writer's camera records people's life and citylandscapes that are somewhat different from what we see in newspapers or geography books.The unique angles chosen and the specialmoments captured by Welty make these photographs worth a careful attention.Visual Grammar is used to examine and analyze the innerworld of the people photographed by Welty.By analyzing three photographs through action processes,reactional processes,and symbolicprocesses as well as by studying the systems of Contact and Social Distance of the photographs,representational meaning and interactivemeaning are explored.The system of information value is also studied to find out how the compositional meaning is realized in the photo-graphs.After a thorough study,the lost inner worlds of the people photographed by Welty can be exposed.