from: Summer
In the picture I took; entitled, When I Grow Up, I focused my lens on the carbon copy ideal of the American women plastered in teen magazines in a more abstract way. I chose to take this picture at a very close range, focusing mainly on the image in the magazine and the arm and torso of a Barbie doll. In doing this, I hinted at a young girl’s narrow view of the world. As child, your whole world is surrounded by images of Barbie, then as a teen a mirage of thin models; it seems she will never really see outside of this constricted view on the female body. The objects in the picture are angled ( the magazine and Barbie are titled) and slightly blurry, as if the image is a disoriented take on reality. The model in the magazine and the Barbie mirror each other entirely; not only in looks but in stance. Both tall, thin, and blonde they stand arms bent and posed. As a girl grows up, she learns to be like Barbie then to be like the girls in the magazine. Both “ideals” are extremely unattainable (no one is that tall, skinny, and blonde). Both Barbie and model reveal their bodies but not their eyes. As if to say that a girl’s body is all that matters, who she is, is of no importance.
3 comments:
"When I Grow Up" shows how little girls are obsessed to Barbie dolls and teens are obsessed to thin models in the magazines.Little girl wants to look like Barbie dolls and teens try to be thin models as shown in either magazines or on TV shows, but these images are impossible to gain. The only thing I think that these messages have very negative effects on our young generation
As stated in the article, the image that Barbie creates is physically unreachable. I have read that if Barbie's proportions were to be fit to a normal human being she would not be able to stand up...for the simple fact that her proportions are not attainable. In response to that, Barbie sets false expectations for little girls. Why are they working to achieve this look when its impossible? Society has really taken a toll on everyone. Since when is it ok for models to be anorexic as long as they look good on the camera? The message that is sent out is one of horrible ideals. Are we teaching our kids not to eat so that they can suddenly become "beautiful" like the people they see in the media? What has the world come to? ... Honestly.
I can associate this picture with how many little girls minds are set today, and it has been this way for many years. Little girls associate barbie withh beauty and as they grow up they c ontiue to think this way . As a result many females try look this way by mantaininga slender body structure
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