Monday, November 4, 2013

To make children of women is a way of disempowering them, turning them into something other than ad


About a week ago I published a fictitious interview with photographer Terry Richardson. It were mainly to point out how strange it is that he is male photographer who never needed to take any responsibility for their sexualiserande girl talk songs and objectifying images of often young famous women. Instead, it is the women themselves who will be contested for their participation.
Some of you expressed a wish that I would rather write a serious analysis of Richardson's photographs, which I will now do (note that the images are not safe for work). After checking hundreds of photographs I have chosen to categorize them based on categories and write the analysis. I have chosen to focus on his photographs of women, then they represent roughly 90%. Cards can one say that his photographs of men are often dressed, catch the person's character and often has the ambition to be a little "funny".
1. Infantilization One trend that has become popular in recent years is the infantilization of women, something Richardson girl talk songs makes over and over again when he asks his models to suck on his thumb. To make children a woman is about to portray her as a child. Infantilization occurs through a linking women with explicit attributes such as dolls, pacifiers, stuffed animals etc., but also more implicitly by a dressing girl talk songs them in childish clothes, portraying them as laughing schoolgirls and so on. For those of you who are interested to read more in depth about this, read my article about infantilization.
To make children of women is a way of disempowering them, turning them into something other than adult, independent, thinking people. For me it is an obvious wink (or boot, depending on how one sees it) with what a heterosexual male audience is expected to want to see where a former often portrayed women as "Housewives" portrays a them now instead of infantile children. It is obviously negative for all parties.
2nd Hyper sexualisation Is there anything Richardson has a penchant for it is to sexualize the female body. He does a lot of symbolism and metaphors. As you can see in bildkollaget above with ice creams, so get ice creams often symbolize the male genitalia, soda cans may symbolize ditto. These sexualized images are the most problematic because they assume heterosexual, patriarchal structures and portrays women as passive sexual girl talk songs objects girl talk songs to in order to please and satisfy men and their sexual fantasy. It all becomes very one-sided and homogeneous.
This is by far the largest category in which Richardson works. First, I shun them like the plague, and partly I think it's liberating to see Miley Cyrus take on the crotch. Because I think one can see a major difference in how such Cameron Diaz (above) portrayed. She is a sexual object. This is in comparison to how Cyrus is portrayed as a covering up traded entities - who take on their sex, which is something we are not accustomed to seeing women do. Then, like Terry Richardson girl talk songs to dress their models in the Supreme outfits, and on this you can read Emma's post about quitting commercialize political movements here.
3rd Rebel, rebel Recently, Richardson photographed many of our greatest icons Rihanna, Chloe Sevigny, Miley Cyrus, etc. These young women often pose the way the world's most provocative - as rebellious women. Both Cyrus and Rihanna has been under fire for their smoked grass, something Richardson reinforces in the photographs girl talk songs when they smoke cigarettes.
These pictures, I feel, for the most part positive. I think it's nice that women are finally getting to be more than stilted, proper Madonnas with a limited sexuality. Both Rihanna, Sevigny, Lohan and Cyrus wins to show more than one way to be a teen idol on.
I think "rebel" (note that they are not particularly rebellious, but simply do not fit into Madonna tray) women should be encouraged and loved more, both by the media and their fans. They finally girl talk songs make something that is not for a professional, a man or a structure. The rebellar, revoltar, speak up, shout at. Men have been allowed to be rebels in decades, it's time that women also may be in the realm if they wish. Of course, not these celebrities be role models around the clock, it's not that I encourage smoking. But we need to give them space to get away from being good girls throughout their lives.
4. Body swaps Often working with Richardson to "tighten" the images. This is usually achieved by his model may change outfit with him. Sometimes even Richardson wearing the female model's clothes, as in the case of Lady Gaga where he poses with her underwear. This is done on a ridiculing way, and is in my opinion often transphobic.
If they were fully swapped Richardson had himself received as a sexualised object, but he does so often with ironic posturing oc

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