Thursday, February 10, 2011

For part three I have decided to compare and contrast the idealized world of modeling with the average American woman. Initially I was inspired by Izima Kaoru, the kind of anti-fashion photographer who photographs models in ditches and other situations in which they appear to be dead, but the caption reads what they are wearing. For a while in advertising there was quite an "ideal" beauty being a woman with soft curves, blonde hair, and blue eyes. While this image is not quite as stringent, there are still certain ideals that models are supposed to uphold and that people are supposed to find beautiful. It is interesting to that while most advertisements are so sexually driven, they actually are focused more towards women than men. Women are supposed to want to become these women, to emulate their figures and looks.

For my project I am going to take an average woman and project the face of a famous model onto her face. It is the sort of anti-image of what we are supposed to find beautiful. The modeling world and in turn the advertising world often seek to change people or reshape them to fit the image they want and that the people want to see.

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