Lowrybear -: The Gaze and the Media -

quote by berger - 1972

'according to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome - men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.'

-From Ways of Seeing Chapter 3

Investigation of the gaze through the nude in european oli painting, this does not mean that women are vain. Women watch themselves being looked at because of the many representations of women that surround us. Women survey their own femininity.

Hans memling 'vanity' -1485
inaccurate representation of her face, she she's what she wants to see in the mirror. the mirror is placed there as a distraction so that we can look at her and her not know were looking at her.

Alexandre Cabanel 'Birth of venus' - 1863
again concentration of focus on the body showed by her covering her face, were interested in her body and not her herself

Sophie Dahl for Opium
deemed too sexual for billboards and magazines so they switched it round so that you focus on different things first like her eyes.

Titan's Venus of Urbino, 1538
compares to

Manet - 'olympia' - 1863
very similar, reclined to the left, the hand in titans is laid back, casual but Manet's hand is almost defensive. Manets head is lifted like she's addressing us, 40 years on form the first photo, impression starts to use that snapshot style but in titans it seems like we might be spying like she's not quite sure if were there taking a photograph.

Ingres 'Le Grand O
guerrilla girls poster

Manet - Bar at the follies burgers - 1882
she's ready to serve us at the bar, again the mirror is used to give us a strange reflection which wouldn't happen in real life, we see her off from the side in stead of the actual reflection a mirror would create, what that allows us to do is see her from two viewing positions at once, we see her as herself and how the gentlemen in the mirror sees us. The gentleman is us and we are seeing what he is seeing

Jeff wall 'picture for women -1979
we have the gaze of the woman and the gaze of the camera, like a sort of doubling. this photo reminds us its a staged shot, reminds us of the gaze.

Coward, R. -1984 quote

a woman stands half dressed in the middle of a busy street, this is saying that its kind of normal and that woman think this in the sub conscience, the sunglasses show that she can't look back we can look at her as long as we want and she can't do anything. which relates to the older paintings in a way.

Coward, R. -1984 - Peeping tom - 1960 movie
conclusion is his voyeurism leads him to seek the image of the woman as he kills her.

Put up the mans picture to show men are in the gaze too
the quantity of men vs woman on naked bodies though is massive, like if you went into a newsagents and looked at the magazines and compared the pictures of naked women to sell things than naked men.

Every single one of the guys in the image are looking back, there is a challeneg to the gaze with men, they show that 'power' in the shot.

Marilyn: The seven year itch - 1955
men often lead the story and that woman are just something to be looked at he claims that there arn't any active females, they don't drive the story there just there to be on the side lines and look pretty.

Lara Croft, theres no ass kicking woman that cannot be a visual spectical but to be honest i disagree here because if you look at james bond he's portrayed the same way but i think that everyone doesn't feel that way i think it depends on what you find attractive. For example, i like James bond i think he's powerful and awesome and handsome, but i don't find him to be visually spectical.

Barbara Kruger ' Your Gaze Hits The Side of My Face' - 1981

Women artists whose work challenges the male gaze. The comment 'Hits the side of my face' challenging males.

Sarah Lucas 'eating a banana -1990

has taken a humorous side towards challenging the male gaze.

obviously eating a banana is seen as a sexual thing and whats she's done here is giving us a look which is very confrontational, saying 'well what have you got to say about this.' She's making males feel a little self conscience

Tracey Emin says it's not really right to make money off art so shes use's a picture of shoving money inside herself obviously shes going to make money off of this art herself so in a way shes criticising herself.

Amanda Knox -

a woman is beautiful/.... quote this is like old times would view woman in paintings etc...

how photographs are often used to misrepresent in the media.

apparently she's stunned but her faces clearly shows that she's neutral, the next day they find out its a mistake which shows that the media create's two stories in advance and they actually sent this wrong verdict around the world due to a misinterpretation of the verdict in court.

Social networking - these images have no artists but it's the idea that gets spread round

paparazzi shots -

The Truman show - everything that happened in his life was a staged event.

Big brother the media gaze men and women are both offered here to view in the gaze, people offering themselves up as a viewing experience

The gaze in games -