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Blog Post #4

Blog Post #4

I’ve chosen the photograph of Donna Gottschalk for my essay. Here’s the photo of Gottschalk with a sign saying “I am your worst fear. I am your best fantasy” during the LGBTQ rights movements during the 1970’s. For my essay I’ll be further more discussing the central point of this image and my own persecutive matching burgers key points. For example who is the photographer trying to capture during this picture. Of course men, especially during those times women didn’t have much say. Just as Berger’s speaks on his episodes women were only seen as objects during the European oil paintings. They would be naked but those who painted them were men fully dressed.

 

Rich Kids Of The Internet

What’s the best way to illustrate wealth in modern society ? Social Media! For the past couple of years Instagram has been a huge hit for users to upload photos of their lives and show off what they have. Heard of rich kids on the internet?! Well it’s an account created by rich kids worldwide to post images of their lavish lifestyles. Below you”ll see an image from this account. This is a women wearing designer head to toe while she shops and moves around in her private jet! As she captions her picture “Taking jets like people take Ubers”. Here she is  showing off her wealth and power because this is something not many people can do. Even if this image didn’t have a caption everything about represents money/wealth. Just as the oil paintings that Berger was discussing about. Both this image and the oil paintings demonstrates what money can buy. Although this image can’t be hanged on a wall it can be posted to the world on social media to show. Berger states “Every portrait is a record which says,” I once existed and looked like this.”Just like in this imagine her goal was to represent what Berger stated by taking the photo and posting it. The difference is that the meaning to this  image can change over time  and the meaning of the oil paintings as Berger states is something that would remain sacred.

FREE THE NIPPLE!!

 

In Episode #2 John Berger states, “To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others yet not recognized as one self.”  He points out his personal opinion on how women were viewed in European paintings. He explains to us that being viewed naked was to simply be without clothes vs when you’re nude your being used as an object to men. In todays society his views are still being shown. Heard of the FREE THE NIPPLE MOVEMENT?! Well if you haven’t it’s a campaign to protest against women equality. Just as Berger says society has us women growing up with the importance on how we appear to others and in particularly to men, creating a difference in nudity between the both. Although both men and both have breast being naked in our society is a huge problem. For example a man can be naked as he goes for a jog but a women can’t be naked in public as she breastfeeds her child. As women we can’t be naked in front of men because we are viewed as sexual objects.

 

 

Blog Post #1 Remembering 9/11

 

 

                                                Remembering 9/11

 

                                                                              

 

I was just a little girl when 9/11 took place. I tend to have flashbacks and blur images of this day.  As I sit here and view this image I begin to feel again those feelings that took place during this day. So many people besides myself can view this image, even those who weren’t there and connect to the horrors that occurred on this day. That’s the power of the camera. It allows us to view a past moment  that took place and personally in our own perspective connect to it. We might not all have the same understanding to this image and over time its meaning changes. The meaning of this image is always going to change over time and more so to the audience viewing it. My expressions do fit what John Berger is describing in episode 1. A Image is a message with a meaning that is going to always going to be different depending where its being viewed from and who is viewing it over time.