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BULIMIA TABLEAU
Gut Reaction Chair
Modified chair frame, foam, tubing, plunger, and custom designed/printed fabric
Guilty Pleasures: Interactive Writing Station
Candy and bakery papers, writing pens, table
The gut reaction chair viscerally expresses bulimia’s binge and purge cycle. Grotesquely distorted, the full seat and back are bloated by all-consuming emotional and physical distress. The pattern on the fleshy upholstery fabric evokes eyes or even galaxies, but actually depicts a varied collection of belly buttons.
Bulimia and anorexia are complex, misunderstood disorders in which food is a coping mechanism for underlying psychological and physical issues. Still, the extreme attention to bodily perfection, dieting and unobtainable ideals of thinness that inundate contemporary culture act as triggers. While bulimics may perceive themselves as overweight, they often fall within ‘normal’ weight ranges, so unlike visibly underweight anorexics, they often can keep their condition secret. Out-of-control feelings (such as shame) lead to binges, which bulimics must then relieve by purging (which causes shame). According to NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness), 2-3% of adolescent women develop bulimia (twice the amount for anorexia). Like “Ana,” its sister disorder, this condition destroys bodies, families, lives—insidiously silent, it can also be deadly.
Our culture of excess upholds dangerous double standards: McDonald’s ads and Weight Watchers shrinking waistlines flash across screens so often we hardly notice. No one is immune to the pressures to consume.
Written ‘food journals’ are common treatment methods for eating disorders. What is in your food journal? Visitors may record their own private food notes on candy and bakery wrapping papers and stuff them into the opening atop the chair ‘gut.’ If your secret gets caught, push it down with the plunger… and watch it release out the back onto the blue disk. Plunk, it has joined the collective spill of secrets on the floor.
The Used - Bulimic
From the way that you acted
to the way that I felt it
It wasn't worth my time
and now it's sad cause all I missed
wasn't that good to begin with
and now that I've started you begging
saying things that you don't mean
it isn't worth my time
a line's a dime a million times
and I'm about to see all of them
[Chorus]
Goodbye to you, goodbye to you
you're taking up my time
[x2]
You call my name when I wake up
to see things go your way
I'm coughing up my time
each drag's a drop of blood a grain
a minute of my life
it's all I've got just to stay down
why the fuck am I still down
I'm hoarding all that's mine
each time I let just one slip by
I'm wasting what is mine
[Chorus x4]
I'm about to see a million things
I thought I'd never see before and I
I'm about to do all of the things
I've dreamed of and
I don't even miss you at all
[x2]
[Chorus x8]
this all started during the winter... i noticed that my teeth were hurting... then i moved up my dentist appt from 6 months to 5 months since the last one... my dentist was shocked... i had 10 cavities (the first in 35 yrs)... most of them gum line... he said he had only seen this on bulimics... now given that i hadn't even so much as puked since 1988, it wasn't bulimia... he couldn't figure it out... no gum disease... no plaque... no sign of decay 5 months ago at his last check... finally he asked if i had been gargling with acid before bed... bingo... reflux...
at least my dentist is about $4k richer... ended up with a few new crowns and it still hurts when i chew... like getting hit in the mouth with a crowbar...
so then the usual stuff... protonix... change my diet... etc... nothing seemed to help... i could now notice my throat burning... finally i go to a gastrointestinal doc... she sets up the endoscope down the throat... i had that today... she didn't find much damage... BUT she found that whopper roughly 3 some odd cm in diameter tumor on the antrum (bottom/exit) of my stomach... apparently those tumors are pretty rare... she had no idea how to remove it or even biopsy it... there are 2 docs in dallas that can do the surgery... i'll be talking to one on thursday... so that sucker is what messed up my teeth... amazing... hopefully the tumor can be easily removed and has no other issues (won't even use the word)...
i did find one academic paper on this subject... (how did i live without google all those years)
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
an image of a women who has gone from being fat to very very thin, a useful image about weight loss.
BULIMIA TABLEAU
Gut Reaction Chair
Modified chair frame, foam, tubing, plunger, and custom designed/printed fabric
Guilty Pleasures: Interactive Writing Station
Candy and bakery papers, writing pens, table
The gut reaction chair viscerally expresses bulimia’s binge and purge cycle. Grotesquely distorted, the full seat and back are bloated by all-consuming emotional and physical distress. The pattern on the fleshy upholstery fabric evokes eyes or even galaxies, but actually depicts a varied collection of belly buttons.
Bulimia and anorexia are complex, misunderstood disorders in which food is a coping mechanism for underlying psychological and physical issues. Still, the extreme attention to bodily perfection, dieting and unobtainable ideals of thinness that inundate contemporary culture act as triggers. While bulimics may perceive themselves as overweight, they often fall within ‘normal’ weight ranges, so unlike visibly underweight anorexics, they often can keep their condition secret. Out-of-control feelings (such as shame) lead to binges, which bulimics must then relieve by purging (which causes shame). According to NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness), 2-3% of adolescent women develop bulimia (twice the amount for anorexia). Like “Ana,” its sister disorder, this condition destroys bodies, families, lives—insidiously silent, it can also be deadly.
Our culture of excess upholds dangerous double standards: McDonald’s ads and Weight Watchers shrinking waistlines flash across screens so often we hardly notice. No one is immune to the pressures to consume.
Written ‘food journals’ are common treatment methods for eating disorders. What is in your food journal? Visitors may record their own private food notes on candy and bakery wrapping papers and stuff them into the opening atop the chair ‘gut.’ If your secret gets caught, push it down with the plunger… and watch it release out the back onto the blue disk. Plunk, it has joined the collective spill of secrets on the floor.
I could think of no better model that My Scene's Kennedy for the "Broadcast Yourself" series. She has the distinctive Barbie face, with the unsettling addition of bedroom eyes, and cherry red slightly parted lips. Combined with her girlish ponytails, she channels a myriad of forbidden fantasies and desires. I decided to use a different doll's body, which I couse for its suggestive pose and sheer red nightie. Perched atop her head are red Lolita sunglasses. The only light in the room emanates from her computer screen. It illuminates her body.
She is using the built-in webcam on her little laptop to share images of herself with the world. She makes a digital slide show for her social networking pages using a song by The Pussycat Dolls. The lyrics of the song are about wanting fame and attention, and being called sexy by boys. She knows no better way to express herself that to take photos that expose her breasts. She is not thinking of the consequences of her actions, especially what kind of influence this could have on her little sister Ana.
read more at tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/11/yasmin-kennedy-and-lol...
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
my eyes light up ..I feel a wonderful buzz , .. I look at this - this spectical of food chains. The colours and Imagery pump an extasy through my body, this is all I need to be now, this is all my life is about now, it has been for many years but the past year and right now it has become a part of me. My favourite logo's here are Wendy's Carl'sJR and Nestle Toll House. I fill my body soul and mind with what these chains are offering, but on a strict basis..only once a year for two weeks when I go to Las vegas. Thats what my entire thought process is chewing on, 24/7 I even dream about this now.
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
BULIMIA TABLEAU
Gut Reaction Chair
Modified chair frame, foam, tubing, plunger, and custom designed/printed fabric
Guilty Pleasures: Interactive Writing Station
Candy and bakery papers, writing pens, table
The gut reaction chair viscerally expresses bulimia’s binge and purge cycle. Grotesquely distorted, the full seat and back are bloated by all-consuming emotional and physical distress. The pattern on the fleshy upholstery fabric evokes eyes or even galaxies, but actually depicts a varied collection of belly buttons.
Bulimia and anorexia are complex, misunderstood disorders in which food is a coping mechanism for underlying psychological and physical issues. Still, the extreme attention to bodily perfection, dieting and unobtainable ideals of thinness that inundate contemporary culture act as triggers. While bulimics may perceive themselves as overweight, they often fall within ‘normal’ weight ranges, so unlike visibly underweight anorexics, they often can keep their condition secret. Out-of-control feelings (such as shame) lead to binges, which bulimics must then relieve by purging (which causes shame). According to NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness), 2-3% of adolescent women develop bulimia (twice the amount for anorexia). Like “Ana,” its sister disorder, this condition destroys bodies, families, lives—insidiously silent, it can also be deadly.
Our culture of excess upholds dangerous double standards: McDonald’s ads and Weight Watchers shrinking waistlines flash across screens so often we hardly notice. No one is immune to the pressures to consume.
Written ‘food journals’ are common treatment methods for eating disorders. What is in your food journal? Visitors may record their own private food notes on candy and bakery wrapping papers and stuff them into the opening atop the chair ‘gut.’ If your secret gets caught, push it down with the plunger… and watch it release out the back onto the blue disk. Plunk, it has joined the collective spill of secrets on the floor.
Edie N.O.S. (1996 - 2014) was the thinnest model ever to work the runway.
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
This was a Great Alaska Group Photo Shoot event we held at the Alaska Botanical Gardens in Anchorage in August 2012. What a great shoot! I think we had 5 models and 5 shooters; lovely Alaskan evening, great scenery and lighting - one of the best shoots we had - and to top it off on the way out of the gardens we had to detour to avoid a black bear on the trail.
This was my first time shooting with Danielle; she is not a pencil thin, bulimic model - actually she just gave birth a few weeks before the shoot. She was a blast to shoot with - great smile and she actually listened to us. I would love to shoot with Danielle again!
How Edie stays so thin.
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
I could think of no better model that My Scene's Kennedy for the "Broadcast Yourself" series. She has the distinctive Barbie face, with the unsettling addition of bedroom eyes, and cherry red slightly parted lips. Combined with her girlish ponytails, she channels a myriad of forbidden fantasies and desires. I decided to use a different doll's body, which I chose for its suggestive pose and sheer red nightie.
She is using her camera phone to share images of herself with the world. She makes a digital slide show for her social networking pages using a song by The Pussycat Dolls. The lyrics of the song are about wanting fame and attention, and being called sexy by boys. She knows no better way to express herself that to take photos that expose her breasts. She is not thinking of the consequences of her actions, especially what kind of influence this could have on her little sister Ana.
read more at tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/11/yasmin-kennedy-and-lol...
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
I have the last few lines of "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" stuck in my head. For a few hours this afternoon it was "Master of the House", from Les Mis. I'm so glad I went to see that. It must be about 2 weeks ago, but I really loved seeing it.
I've had a lovely evening! I finished watching "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" with my Mom, & then we started watching "Laurence of Arabia" before my Dad & brother called us for dinner - only 49 mins of the film left. & after we'd eaten we had a lovely long discussion about freedom & rights, & religion, beliefs, your sense of self. It was great. I love it when we have talks like that. Except my brother got bored after 5 minutes & walked off. We all asked & told him to stay, but he said later he finds it 'boring'. I really don't see how.
After our marathon discussion we went upstairs & watched the last episode in season 3 of Mad Men, & then the first of the fourth season. I really love it, & am a bit annoyed I didn't start watching it earlier. My Dad showed me an episode which looked absolutely beautiful, & you could tell the show itself was good, but I didn't watch anymore for some reason. I carried on knitting the latest scarf I'm working on (a purple one for my Mom) & then I went downstairs to fill up my hot water bottle while my Dad had a peanut sandwich.
& I'm just feeling lovely. Whereas this morning I wanted to vomit I was in so much pain. I don't know why I had that reaction, but sometimes it hurts so much that just seems to be my natural reaction. I said to my Mom either vomiting or crying would make me feel better, but I wasn't managing either. Luckily I hadn't eaten anything, because I really, really hate throwing up. I could never make it as a bulimic. Anyway, my Mom woke me up this morning & asked if I wanted to go to lunch with her, & I was all excited & pleased because I thought that was a lovely suggestion, but as soon as I was up I felt awful & that always makes me much slower & then my Mom said it was time to go but I needed another 10 minutes. She then told me that was cutting it too close as she had a meeting to go to soon so I couldn't go out. I was very sad, but said it was just fine. Of course, it did make me feel a little more miserable. She had to nip to the post office to drop off my camera, & it felt like she took ages before getting back (I now realise that's because she was probably out having lunch without me!). I called my Dad, practically crying, just because I needed someone to talk to while I waited for the paracetamol to kick in. I was so claimmy & the house felt over-hot, but then I was shivering too. He suggested I go into their room & open the window a little bit until I felt cooler, & then go & make a hot water bottle.
So it was while I was downstairs getting the hot water bottle that my Mom arrives home & she is so kind asking me how I am, & then she presents me with some rocky road she bought for me in town (though she assured me that it wouldn't be as good as my recipe) & I thought that was so sweet. She tried some first before she had to go out again & realised there were some nuts in the two slices she'd bought, & I said it didn't matter but really my heart was sinking because I hate nuts. & I noticed there were cherries too. Gross. But I figured I could pick them out. The idea of eating though was making me feel sicker, so my Mom suggested I try a piece of bread, as usually that helps me, but just chewing the crust made me queasy.
I scurried on up to bed then & read The Week & an hour later I was already starting to feel much better, albeit hungry. So I go downstairs & manage a piece of bread. All good. Then I figure I know I'm not actually sick, just in pain, so I'll try some of the rocky road. It was not good. I personally believe you shouldn't make rocky road with milk chocolate - it should always be dark chocolate. That was their first mistake. Second, it was choc full of marshmallows. Ridiculously choc full. Third, they had almost as many nuts. Fourth, there were cherries too. & I felt so sad that my Mom had done such a sweet gesture & that I couldn't appreciate it. I felt mean, really. But rocky road should have biscuit, not nuts. Dark, not milk. & some marshmallows, but not so many that you feel your teeth will be coated with them forever. I had some more bread.
My Mom came back from her meeting then, & invited her friend Averil round for a cup of tea. The kettle had actually just been boiling for my hot water bottle, but I felt it would have been churlish to point this out, so instead I emptied half of it & filled it with the remaining water.
Averil asked me all the to-be-expected questions about going to uni, & then my Mom left the room so I felt I should make a "grown-up gesture" & ask her about the meeting. I dislike making small talk. I really do. Unless it's with family or close friends, because then it's not small talk, it's me just nattering randomly. But anyway, my hatred of small talk also means I have little practise in it, so I can barely hold a conversation. I just try "Umm", & "Aaah" in all the right places. Averil & my Mom ended up having a long chat about random things & what had happened at the meeting & at random moments I was included, as if they expected me to have been listening in, when really I'd been reading the paper. One thing I dislike about being ill, is suddenly everyone things they can talk to you about it. I know Averil was just being kind & helpful when my Mom was talking about how badly I can be affected, but it just makes me uncomfortable.
After Averil left, even though my Mom had promised we'd watch movies, she then announced she was going to go to her office & do some work. I asked her how long she'd be & she said a while. I'll admit I was annoyed. She's been promising me since Monday that she'd finish watching "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", but she kept finding reasons not to. I was a little snippy before going upstairs to continue reading.
My Dad came home at 4pm to talk to the gardener about something, & he asked how I was feeling & then I said I was annoyed about not watching the film & how two more of my uni books had arrived. & then he went back to school & I felt a little lonely.
Hugh came home half an hour later, & then after a bit of time had passed I heard some growling out on the landing or in the hall. Despite the fact that this is usually happening outside or nearest to Hugh's room, he never does anything about it unless you specifically ask him to, so I called out for him to go check. What I heard next shocked me - Ben had killed a mouse! Hugh found him with it in his mouth on the landing. That doesn't seem very much like Ben though. A part of me thinks/hopes that maybe it was Toddy (the usual culprit) & Ben just picked it up & tried to claim it as his. But really I don't know.
Eventually my Mom came to watch movies with me, & then my Dad came home at 6pm & said we'd have dinner in an hour (though really it was like 2 hours later before he started cooking - though of course I appreciate how nice it was of him to cook dinner for us all, & also that he had a lot of work to do). We had vegetarian Shepherd's Pie!
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
An emaciated bronze Buddha photographed on December 27, 2001 at the 16th century Wat Phra Chetuphon (a.k.a. Wat Pho) in Bangkok, Thailand
I could think of no better model that My Scene's Kennedy for the "Broadcast Yourself" series. She has the distinctive Barbie face, with the unsettling addition of bedroom eyes, and cherry red slightly parted lips. Combined with her girlish ponytails, she channels a myriad of forbidden fantasies and desires. I decided to use a different doll's body, which I couse for its suggestive pose and sheer red nightie.
She is using the built-in webcam on her little laptop to share images of herself with the world. She makes a digital slide show for her social networking pages using a song by The Pussycat Dolls. The lyrics of the song are about wanting fame and attention, and being called sexy by boys. She knows no better way to express herself that to take photos that expose her breasts. She is not thinking of the consequences of her actions, especially what kind of influence this could have on her little sister Ana.
read more at tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/11/yasmin-kennedy-and-lol...
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
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It's so pretty outside!🗻 #mia #blithe #bulimia #bulimic #bullying #cutting #life #lifequotes #hope #depression #suicide #selfmutilation #anxiety #ana #anorexia #anorexic #quotes #ednos #edrecovery #eatingdisorder #relapse #recovery #refusetosink #teamhope #tumblrquotes #thynspiration #icare #inspirationalquotes #picoftheday - teamhope
media screws up a lot of girls images of themselves by idealizing skinniness as perfection,. causing girls to develop eating disorders and put themselves at risk to achieve that unrealistic and many times unobtainable perfection.
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
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The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
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The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
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The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
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The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
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The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
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How high tech communication tools have changed the way people organize themselves and what it allows them to do. This book was recommended to me in the wake of discussion of Malcolm Gladwell's essay dismissing social networking as a tool of social organizing because he claimed it generates only week tie connections and doesn't persuade people to take costly actions. For those interested in defending the power of new technology to organize social change or behavior change, Shirky makes the following points.
Everyone can now be a publisher whereas before editors served to filter the news that was published and were able to limit topics and shape news (usually according to a societally agreed on bias). This factor alone upset the applecart of traditional news media, rendering the entire industry of printed news media irrelevant and they didn't even see it coming (because they believed in the sanctity of the professional and didn't take amateurs seriously).
Shirky summons the Power Law to describe the inequity of participation that characterizes the creation of content on the internet. You'd think that with tools that made participation so easy, there would be more equality in participation, but what happens is that only a few participate hugely, but the majority participate very minimally. This is important because when the many can participate equally they will help protect what the few are busy creating out of love for the many (and ego and for brain exercise). And that which they protect becomes a commons.
Wickipedia for instance. Only a handful of people might create the bulk of an article, but many more people help to make corrections thus increasing the value of the article over time and even more people than that read the articles thus making it worthwhile for the worker bees to guard their work. Thus there are plenty of eyes on the "street" to protect it from vandalism. It is not however exactly a collaboration, but more of a collaborative argument in which points are fought for and tolerated.
Wickipedia not only covers the usual academic topics it is also the go to place for unfolding world events such as the Madrid bombings because so many people can contribute bits of news making it more difficult for authoritarian states to control information, providing, of course, the interested party of the population has internet access.
This same collaborative effort also comes together for building tools like Linux. Here he talks about how the low cost of the web allows collaborators to fail faster because so little at stake. And so much to gain. Opensource collaborations means things can come to fruition faster and cheaper by marshaling the help of thousands motivated by shared interest in an outcome. But the invitation has to be right; it must provide a promise—why do this, a tool—to easily manage the group, and a bargain that rewards the participants.
The Power Law also describes the kind of conversations going on on the web. Bloggers with very large followings cannot respond to each of their commentators so are equivalent to broadcasting networks, but small audience bloggers can host conversations and respond to commentators, helping everyone to educate and inform everyone else. This is where most of us on flickr and blogger come in. The smaller the audience, the more every commentator also becomes a content provider.
Because our problem is now too much information, our job is to filter the input. "Filter then publish" gave way to "publish then filter". This aspect allowed small minority groups to be heard even though only a small audience was interested. Two things are made possible. Some far flung undesirable thinkers could now marshall an audience and persuade others to join and act i.e. Neo-nazis, bomb making terrorists, suicide advocates, bulimics and Tea Party supporters.
On the other hand a single person can alert others to an undesirable event, until so many people become concerned that it has to be addressed by larger news media or authorities. And once addressed then a backlog of previously blogged stuff can come to light on the bigger stage of television.
As for creating political movements and actions, Shirky provides a useful observation of social awareness. "when everybody knows something, when everybody knows that everybody knows, and when everybody knows that everybody knows that everybody knows". First you as an individual realize something is wrong or corrupt and change how you do things. Then you realize that everyone else realizes this and are taking action that is being seen. When everyone is realizing this same thing and everyone knows that we all realize it, then we have a movement. Thus the importance of the means of communication. For Leipzig and the collapse of the East German government this "information cascade" brought 400,000 people into the street, but it took 40 years of discontent. Leipzig protestors did not have cell phones or internet; their street protests were visible to authorities as they were building up and invisible to each other because of controlled media coverage. Authorities learned to stop small protests and nip in the bud a major protest.
Now we have flash mobs originally created by cell phones. Authorities cannot see a protest coming and when they get there they cannot control the way the event is broadcast to the world and they don't want to look bad so police are less likely to crack unarmed people over the head. We now have the power both to create movements quickly and record them so that the movement has a record of its history and grows with the addition of copycat events. 350.org is such a movement. Shirky declines to comment on what we might do with these tools of collective assembly.
What I took away from this book was the importance of getting to "everybody knows that everybody knows that everybody knows". This is what social networking is good for. I'm not sure it will put feet on the ground when it counts, but it can change how we think about community and numbers of people it is possible to organize. For instance, the Tree People in Los Angeles getting trees planted in a day with 3,000 people probably would not have been so easy without e-mail. And it was a very different approach than using the usual government process taking 10 years and $10 million of tax payers' money.
I also believe cultural changes in the way we live are being fostered right here on flickr and through other DIY channels like Instructables. When enough people change how they do things or decide to invent their own things, this too will be a political change on the economical level.
And finally, even though social networking isn't used much by most of my network it is there when a crisis hits and then everybody is on it. It is the telephonovision of our time.
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
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The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
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by The Blood Brothers
2003 - Listen [yt]
Bulimic rainbows vomit what?
Burn Piano Island Burn!
Coconut pupils never shut?
Burn Piano Island Burn!
Jigsaw babies and their bamboo stilts?
Burn Piano Island Burn!
Charred toucans weaving their black sky quilt?
Burn Piano Island Burn!
The sea shells scream out celestial code.
Melting on the shore inside a flame sno globe.
Burn Burn So burn Piano island!
Torch the treasure!
Torch the shovels!
Torch these hands dipped in gold lacquer,
Torch the finger-prints painting a violence portrait on spinal wings.
I buried my child of eight inch fingers neck deep in the hungry quicksand.
I buried my bride of pineapple skin where the generic sunsets sparkle so bland.
I split my grandmother like a rotten papaya... our fright to pollenate the flowers of fire.
I vomited my skeleton and donated it to the war mausoleum...
I cut my will and testament along the scar tissue seam.
I packaged my heart and fed-ex'd it to the octopus queen.
Burn Piano Island Burn!
Soured Palm trees sputter waxy wax stink.
Burn Piano Island Burn!
Boiling lagoons chewing bubble gum pink?
Burn Piano Island Burn!
The vicoden volcano spews and salivates?
It's belly bloated like a pre-teen pregnancy?
I fed its limp indifferent walls tales of an ark haunted with the five howls,
blah blah blah ????
I tied a nervous noose of piano wire
and wrapped it around the mocking throat of the past.
It's head erupted like a rabid roman candle
as I kicked the stump from underneath.
Burn Piano Island Burn
and drown all your fucking riddles down the throat of the sea.
This one man raft won't be coming back
so don't talk out of tune to me.
From a distance the fornication of fear and flames twinkles so pretty.
This was a Great Alaska Group Photo Shoot event we held at the Alaska Botanical Gardens in Anchorage in August 2012. What a great shoot! I think we had 5 models and 5 shooters; lovely Alaskan evening, great scenery and lighting - one of the best shoots we had - and to top it off on the way out of the gardens we had to detour to avoid a black bear on the trail.
This was my first time shooting with Danielle; she is not a pencil thin, bulimic model - actually she just gave birth a few weeks before the shoot. She was a blast to shoot with - great smile and she actually listened to us. I would love to shoot with Danielle again!
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
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Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
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Read about The Doll Project at tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/search/label/the doll project
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
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The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
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More pictures from The Doll Project taken with my new camera. Read more at tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/search/label/the doll project
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
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