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Anonymous
I agree that the shot is not tasteless, but it's not tasteful either.
When you take a photo, ask yourself how you feel, or how you are moved by your subject, then try to amplify that feeling for your viewers. For example, if upon seeing a dead bird in a park, you feel it's a bit tragic, you could amplify that feeling by including in the background people walking by as if nothing was wrong - Just going about their daily lives. That makes the effect all the more tragic, because the bird seems to have died alone, and nobody seems to care.
If you teacher asked for a 'point', 'purpose', or 'thought' behind the picture, then you responded with "it's just a dead bird," then I'd partially side with your teacher - the picture is not tasteless, but there was no taste involved in your attempt to photograph either. Bland is a better word, really.
If you had absolutely no opportunity to tell a story behind the picture, or to convey your purpose (and it doesn't seem from your posts that you had a strong one, if at all), and she responded to the picture immediately by calling it tasteless - then A) she can't see your purpose, and one can only speculate that she did or did not give a good effort, or B) she shouldn't be teaching art, on the grounds of "everything will offend someone," and any art teacher needs to recognize and get over that to objectively help their students
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