Part 1 - The Gendered Image - John Berger
- What distinguishes the presentation of the man and woman in each image? What distingusihing difference between the man and woman are that the male is fully clothed looking straight at the camera whereas the female is in her underwear and a small top that reveals her underboob and she is looking towards the camera.
- Describe what you see, referring to Berger's ideas about how the model is presented and the likely viewer of the image. As the magazine is GQ, a male's magazine, both photographs are aimed at males. The way the male is stood and what he is wearing it referneces to Berger's idea of what a male can do to you, the viewer, and the female has reference to Berger's looking at how she is being watched and how she wants to be viewed to the ideal viewer, a male.
- Are there examples which seem to subvert Berger's claims? if so, how? Yes, this is due to the clothing they have one - the female being in a small amount of clothes and showing her body off.
For part two, we had to watch two short films about Bruce Gilden and Bruce Davidson.
Part 2 - 'Taking' photographs - Susan Sontag
- What contrasts are there between the way the two photographers work? A main contrast between Gilden and Davidson is how the approach people. Golden goes up to people with the camera in their face, so unexpectedly whereas Davidson gains their trust and works with them.
- What ideas about photography are suggested by the way they approach their subjects? Within the films, you get to see how confident Bruce Gilden is with people, walking up to them and getting in their face. This suggests that he is a confident, cocky person whereas you have Bruce Davidson who can work with a variety of people but he did not like working with poverty then seeing models advertising objects that cost money. This suggests he is a calm and knowledge man.
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