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I am currently working on an essay about beauty; and over the holidays I have been reading all sorts of things to contribute and give me some ideas of how I feel. Frankly, it's made me sad about us. Us, being humankind. Read some of these quotes from texts I have been reading:
' Throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century, beauty was held accountable for photography's lapses and misdeeds, especially in the area of social concern.' - Photography: A Cultural History 2002:475
" The more contemporary audiences sense their own grayness in contact with the semi-human media image of the person, the more these audiences can't help depreciating and diminishing themselves." Cone Visions Crowded Frames 1994:77
" Most people taking photographs are only seconding received notions of the beautiful." On Photography 1977:96
It seems we only see ourselves photographically.
I was also reading an article written by a feminist who is a self-portrait artist; she noted that a greater majority of self-portrait artists are female and that most women seem to second the male ideals set out for us by men. .oh dear.
' Throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century, beauty was held accountable for photography's lapses and misdeeds, especially in the area of social concern.' - Photography: A Cultural History 2002:475
" The more contemporary audiences sense their own grayness in contact with the semi-human media image of the person, the more these audiences can't help depreciating and diminishing themselves." Cone Visions Crowded Frames 1994:77
" Most people taking photographs are only seconding received notions of the beautiful." On Photography 1977:96
It seems we only see ourselves photographically.
I was also reading an article written by a feminist who is a self-portrait artist; she noted that a greater majority of self-portrait artists are female and that most women seem to second the male ideals set out for us by men. .oh dear.