Figure 3 - “ Zoo ”, Page 7 ( Browne , 1992 )
Figure 4 - Giraffe House ( Baldur , 2011 )
ARCH321 been presented as barren in Browne ’ s illustration ; and while the same tree can be seen in Figure 4 , there is significant colour which has been omitted from the illustrated depiction . These variations create a more hostile environment which becomes associated with the architecture central to the image .
It cannot be said that the perspective on the Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion ( Fig . 5 ) has been altered in the same way . Browne ’ s depiction ( Fig . 6 ) utilises similar brown and grey tones , with a barren beige landscape in front of the architecture . The colours exhibited in Peter Guillery ’ s photograph ( Fig . 5 ) present the architecture as it is ; bands of grey lying between a green earth and a blue sky . This reality is an unsympathetic textured concrete ( Doonan , 1999 ) facade which contrasts the natural landscape of colour which the elephant comes from , and Browne perfectly imitates these monotonous tones within Zoo .
One illustration from the book completely contrasts the bland colour scheme used for the majority of the architecture ; the Orangutang enclosure ( Fig . 7 ). A bold yellow wall surrounds the animal , while it sits curled up , hiding it ’ s face . This negative body language creates an impression that the animal is scared or sad even on younger readers ( Styles & Arizpe , 2001 ). A yellow border visible around the crowd on the same spread ( Fig . 8 ), suggesting that this positive emotional response invoked by the yellow architecture represents the attitude of the onlooker rather than the animal . The contrast between
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