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Gohar 12P
Last week something that did not work was that I focused more on the clothing I was wearing than the character, or myself as the subject of the image. However, this made me think more about fashion photography and the way that I chose to photograph myself. I think the male gaze is so internalized that I chose to photograph myself through the male gaze without realizing it. Posing in certain ways, like looking away from the camera.
In the bending of my concept, one of the fashion photographers I looked at was Cecil Beaton, because I liked his sets. I liked his idea of photographing women near large windows, and tried to create my own version but did not really like how it turned out.
Below is one of the photographs that shows this:
www.artnet.com/artists/cecil-beaton/nancy-james-modelling...
I also liked his usage of flowers in his portraits and tried to incorporate that into this weeks photos:
huxleyparlour.com/works/anna-may-wong-1930/
Although I don't see the male gaze in all of Beaton's photographs, I do see it in some of them. For example, his photographing of Marilyn Monroe, but this may be because she was objectified her whole life.
Gohar 12P
Last week something that did not work was that I focused more on the clothing I was wearing than the character, or myself as the subject of the image. However, this made me think more about fashion photography and the way that I chose to photograph myself. I think the male gaze is so internalized that I chose to photograph myself through the male gaze without realizing it. Posing in certain ways, like looking away from the camera.
In the bending of my concept, one of the fashion photographers I looked at was Cecil Beaton, because I liked his sets. I liked his idea of photographing women near large windows, and tried to create my own version but did not really like how it turned out.
Below is one of the photographs that shows this:
www.artnet.com/artists/cecil-beaton/nancy-james-modelling...
I also liked his usage of flowers in his portraits and tried to incorporate that into this weeks photos:
huxleyparlour.com/works/anna-may-wong-1930/
Although I don't see the male gaze in all of Beaton's photographs, I do see it in some of them. For example, his photographing of Marilyn Monroe, but this may be because she was objectified her whole life.