Post on 12-Jul-2015
How do these models hold their bodies?
Do you see a difference between women and men, in terms of body stance? Attitude?
Is there a feeling that the photos exude?
• Look at some of the contrasts between ways that women and men are (differently) posed and portrayed:
– Who has clothes on?
– Who touches themselves?
– Who stands sturdily on two feet, looking ready to take on the world?
– Who cocks their body, crooks elbows, cants knees, looks off-balance?
– Who is aggressively taking on the world?
– Who is reclining, kneeling, inviting?
What message(s) (do)es body positioning and other visual markers convey?
Is there a social and psychological effect when such imagery becomes normalized, even
conventional?