THEORY FOR PHOTOGRAPHY:

ARTICLE 1: Adolescents exposure to a sexualised media environment and their notions of women as sex object:

·         Gender stereotypes and beliefs-the idea that women are supposed to be sexually appealing-idealised to be sexual and look sexual

·         Fredrickson and Roberts (1997) the sexual objectification of women may be defined as the reduction of women to their sexual appeal in terms of their outer appearance and a focus on their body

·         Gives an inkling of sexual activity-if you buy these products

·         Men’s magazines-define women just by their image and sex appeal

·         Ward (2002) Though his research that young adults that watched TV and were exposed to multimedia content were more likely to believe that women are just sexual objects

·         Alternative explanations of women as sex objects-women as sex objects have cultural and social traits

·         Gender stereotypes-men in power-men be able and should be able to roam city-women in fixed places and should be able to be controlled-Simmel-metropolis of city life

·         Try to producer gender quality-and men superior to women-this links back to what i have talked about in previous posts of women being products of the gaze,

Yurie Nagashima

In one photograph, she holds an onion in front of her left breast while holding her t-shirt up by her teeth. This form of visual allegory and humorous photographic intervention locates Nagashima alongside artists such as Sarah Lucas who, in one photograph, placed two fried eggs in situ of her breasts. In the case of Lucas, the reference to female fertility and reproductive organs signified by the eggs is clear. In Nagashima’s case however, the onion is more difficult to locate since it does not immediately signify either the male or the female body. Instead, the onion might refer to the trope of perfectibility: the emphasis on aesthetic perfection of fruit and vegetable that is common in Japanese department stores. The perfect watermelon, the perfect carrot, the perfect onion, is, above all, determined by its symmetrical and even visual appearance. Nagashima’s photograph appears to question, even ridicule, this paradigm closely associated with consumerism and the representation of gender. Here, I am referring to consumerism in an economic sense but also consuming food as metaphor for consuming the female body. The onion thus functions as a pun on consuming and being consumed: in contrast to the soothing milk of the mother’s breast, Nagashima purposefully chooses a vegetable known not only for it’s acidic taste, but also, for causing tears. The unpeeling of the onion, and the allegorical pain associated with it, becomes the complete antithesis to the warmth associated with the mother

theoretical context

remember to type up notes in pink folder

Reflection on photographs and further notes:

Pictures taken are good, but need to be taken a step further:

• Need to take some more pictures of nude pictures and kitchen and house hold objects
• Really like the idea of cling film and suggesting that women are packaged and like products- really like the pictures because they look like they are plastic-but i think they need to go a step further and make them more original.
• De delicious products
  Clinge film-melting face-full face of makeup then smudge-melting plastis-katie price plastic
  More pictures with products-still do fried eggs-tribute to artist
  More house hold objects-need to use text as well-lots of experimentation
  More unsexed objects
  Different  types of packaging-anymore needed-polystyrene
  Clinge film needs to be pushed further-in a bath-cling film over bath-model under water-distrrted shattered glass
  Wrap up clinge film lots of times-gives more texture-vascaline on the lense-cling film over the lense-mummified 
  
  

Photos: 'The Perfect Face'

Film Strip of \photo shoot-women as objects

The perfect face?