Femininity as Masquerade in “Untitled Film Stills 1977-1980” by Cindy Sherman “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” – Simone de Beauvoir In 1964 Jacques Lacan introduced the psychoan…
We're meeting today with the Italian-born Pasquale Autorino, who managed to catch our attention ever so swiftly through his astonishing eye for composition,
The adult entertainment world isn’t just made for a male gaze.
Yuko Shimizu’s illustrations continue to captivate, whether they adorn books, magazine stories, comic book coveries, or gallery walls. The New York City-based, Japan-born artist is known for a diverse client list, from NIKE and The New York Times to Library of Congress. As usual, Shimizu shares thorough process documentation online, showing how she crafts her professional and personal work on a granular level.
As women, we often find ourselves caught between the desire to express our femininity and sensuality and the fear of being seen or subjugated through the male gaze. Dressing for the male gaze implies a subconscious desire to be the object of male attention, conforming to societal expectations. On th
Frustrated by tired tropes and industry obsessions, London-based photographer Joseph Barrett focused his lens on the men around him. The result is a series of portraits that explores post-modern masculinity.
In the patriarchal society we live in today, the male gaze is a view point that is nearly inescapable in the media we enjoy and take in from day in to day out. We see it in magazines, billboards, films, television shows and advertisements; the use of the female body as nothing more than an object for male eyes to consume, to leer at and stroke the male libido to the point that it is shocking the female population at large is not waving their fists in disgust and outrage. On a daily basis, young women are stripped away of their humanity and used as a selling force for Coors brand beer or the new Honda Civic, parts of their nude bodies super imposed into the product they're trying to promote as if they are the products themselves. Well, ain't that refreshing. Two for the price of one deal? Maybe? How are women or even growing girls meant to feel when they see members of their own gender be used as nothing more than selling vehicles and objects to the sexual satisfaction of men? Their bodies spliced and transformed into a mishmash of lewd images and body parts to get the boys' gears rolling? It's an insane concept that dehumanizes the female sex in such a way that many young women grow to glorify this hyper sexual imagery and internalize it themselves. They agree that yes, they do desire to attract the attention of men by amplifying their sexual allure and availability to them...even when they are hardly the age for that to be even the slightest bit appropriate. According to John Berger, it has become that a woman must always be conscious of themselves and how they are viewed externally by men. That they must look from beyond themselves and act accordingly to make themselves more desirable to the male gaze. “A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood, she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually.” A female must always, without a doubt be available to be an object of desire for her male colleagues...and why wouldn't any woman doubt that when we are given a slew of imagery in our every day lives that confirm this ridiculous belief. A woman can't even go to the cinema without being bombarded by imagery of buxom barely clad babes gallivanting across the screen with their seductive eyes focused on their boyfriends, fathers, husbands and sons. Their testosterone pumping love interest playing as a simple tradeoff for what the attractive beauty really wants. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982 Really imagine how audiences would have reacted if the genders were swapped. I mean, really...imagine it. Now the above clip was censored, but all you were really missing was a young Phoebe Cates baring her breasts to the love sick (and fully clothed) protagonist and capturing him in an erotic kiss before we are brought back to reality and the main guy's apparently intense masturbation session. This is a perfect example of what the media does to women every single day with their raunchy advertising and hyper sexualizing of young bodies. They've transformed women into walking self pleasure tools for the male eye. Though, of course, it's natural for boys to have fantasies such as the one depicted in this film as they go through their teenage years, I'm not a complete tyrant...but how often do we have quirky raunchy romantic comedies about young girls and their sexual needs and frustrations growing up? Almost never and that's exactly the problem. How is a young woman supposed to relate to media like this that forces them to view themselves through lenses made for men and by men? How can someone even comprehend creating an identity beyond something that is so well accepted that it's become the ultimate standard? It isn't an easy task and it's hard to blame girls that go along with the grain instead of against it since doing the latter tends to get them ostracized by their peers in the most outrageous fashion. Sources: Text: Berger, John. “Ways of Seeing”, Penguin, 1972 Video Clip: Fast Times At Ridgemont High, 1982
It's not a secret that ads are around in order to push products. But what's interesting is that oftentimes, we find the male gaze in ads that are trying to move merchandise for women. Whereas male-skewed ads usually revolve around becoming more…
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Frustrated by tired tropes and industry obsessions, London-based photographer Joseph Barrett focused his lens on the men around him. The result is a series of portraits that explores post-modern masculinity.
By Dan DeWeese Before space, there was obsession.
Frustrated by tired tropes and industry obsessions, London-based photographer Joseph Barrett focused his lens on the men around him. The result is a series of portraits that explores post-modern masculinity.
It's not a secret that ads are around in order to push products. But what's interesting is that oftentimes, we find the male gaze in ads that are trying to move merchandise for women. Whereas male-skewed ads usually revolve around becoming more…
This is the first installment of a series we are trying at the Female Gaze where we revisit the first essays related to Art History that we wrote. I originally came to Wellesley thinking I would be…
ourphanta17: “There is such a sweetness in this boy’s gaze…”
by Ronni Knepp The male gaze in art dates centuries back when men created art for the viewing by other men. Women were portrayed in various mediums in order to please the male client purchasing/viewing the piece. One can look at paintings such as Venus of Urbino by Titian and
Jenna Gribbon reinvents centuries of art history in paintings that merge realism and abstraction, beauty and camp, and subversion and self-absorption.
Frustrated by tired tropes and industry obsessions, London-based photographer Joseph Barrett focused his lens on the men around him. The result is a series of portraits that explores post-modern masculinity.
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It's not a secret that ads are around in order to push products. But what's interesting is that oftentimes, we find the male gaze in ads that are trying to move merchandise for women. Whereas male-skewed ads usually revolve around becoming more…
Jennifer Packer’s Breathing Room creates space between the subject and the viewer.
Frustrated by tired tropes and industry obsessions, London-based photographer Joseph Barrett focused his lens on the men around him. The result is a series of portraits that explores post-modern masculinity.
Frustrated by tired tropes and industry obsessions, London-based photographer Joseph Barrett focused his lens on the men around him. The result is a series of portraits that explores post-modern masculinity.
Frustrated by tired tropes and industry obsessions, London-based photographer Joseph Barrett focused his lens on the men around him. The result is a series of portraits that explores post-modern masculinity.
We're meeting today with the Italian-born Pasquale Autorino, who managed to catch our attention ever so swiftly through his astonishing eye for composition,
In her 'History Portraits' from the late 1980s, Cindy Sherman humorously plays with Old Master portraiture tropes.
