The Body as an Aesthetic Object.
Within this small sub-title for ‘The Body’ woman are the dominant subjects. With the thoughts of ‘traditional’ men believing woman are ‘objects’ and believing they also own them. Also woman in a lot of the works I looked at were seen as sexual objects, like something to use over and over again for the viewers own pleasure.
Jean Straker was the founder of the Visual Arts Club in Soho (1950’s-60’s), photographing his models in provocative and sensual poses. He also was also sued for pornographic images, but won his case. One of this specialism’s was ‘Gynarcographic Studies’. The women do look playful and enjoyable within the images but the strong sexual representation for the male audience in noticeable.
The British Journal of Photography – 27/08/08 – pg 18-24.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a creative black and white photographer and portrays the body as part of the environment very well. His style is similar to Bill Brandt yet not as strong on the contrast. His images are beautifully taken and are all self-portraits, I am guess must be done on a timer.
Ag – Summer 2009
Paul & Paula’s work on the series More Beautiful Than God are portrayed to be such a laugh. They set up a series of rules for a game which was the subject for their portraits. Also the people within the images to me do not seem the main focus, but instead just a ‘pawn’ in the game.
Source – Autumn 2002 – pg 5-11
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