From: Elena
Patti is a 16 year old girl who took the pictures from her boyfriends Maxim Magazine to see if she could fit into the image of these Cover Girls. The white tank top represents her innocence as a 16 year old girl, which is slowly being lost as she compares herself to these sexy pictures of other women. She ultimately wants to look like the girls she see’s in magazines which is why she is posing the same way as one of the models in the picture. I didn’t want to show her face because I wanted her to represent all girls as a whole and not one single girl. The angle of the camera looking up at her represents the higher standards that are placed on young girls. The angle shows the pedestal that beauty is put on by society. I used the Maxim pictures of Audrina from the hills because she is on a popular show on MTV that most teenagers watch. Millions of young girls watch her on T.V see her rich, real, and exciting life and then see her plastered in magazines half naked in sultry poses. I think this picture represents gender labels and social demands. It shows that the standard for beauty isn’t a pretty girl next door type. It’s showing that these sexy, enhanced, airbrushed women are what girls expire to be. I think it shows that not only is this type of beauty ultimately unattainable but that it also isn’t real.
7 comments:
I think that this picture is a very good representation of all young women. The media has truly painted the picture of idea beauty as extremely beautiful woman that don’t even exists. This makes it hard for young woman to truly think they are beautiful because they don’t fit this mold, nobody does. I think that the white shirt was a good idea since she is sixteen it does give her an innocence look. The magazine ads are smart to throw in the picture because the character is defiantly popular in the teen culture. I think a good percentage of young woman watch the hills. Millions of women check their image all the time in the mirror so I think it was a good prop so put in the picture. I think the overall message this picture is trying to show is that the media is brainwashing our youth and teaching them to be sexual objects as well as sex symbols.
This photo does a good job representing the idea that girls see themselves becoming the ideal woman in magazines, but really share little in common with her. The women on the magazine pictures are noticeably beautiful while the subject in the picture does not even have a face shown. I think the 16-year-old girl wearing white instead of black is a good aspect of this photo because not only does it represent innocence, but it also shows how the average girl is so different from the advertised girl. The different colored shirts show how the two girls will never be alike or of the same status. I also like how it looks like the girl is in a closet, although she is really looking at herself in the mirror. The misrepresentation that she could be in a closet expresses her passiveness in society because her beauty is not what the media conveys as beautiful. It is interesting how the picture is taped to the mirror because it insists that girls aspire to look certain ways and are determined to from pictures they see in public.
Rachel D-
This photo to me is very interesting; I think that the way the whole image is set up shows a story of a young girl who is struggling with her personal body image. I think the photographer used the four provocative images to prove a point that these are just four of the many images that come out of our major magazines that millions of young impressionable girls see every day. The woman in the images on the floor is Audrina Patridge and she is a star on the popular MTV show “The Hills”. This show is watched by millions of people each week and most of them are under the age of 18, I think the photographer used images of her posing provocatively to show that these are the women we see not only in magazines but on popular TV shows and that these are the woman who we should look like. I think the photographer didn’t show the face of the girl as a message that this girl is like many girls who are going through a body image crisis, they don’t know who they are, they don’t know what they should look and in a sense they are faceless and are trying to mold themselves into what the media images portray as what is right or good-looking. I also think it is interesting that the photographer mimicked what the image taped to the mirror is doing, I think that they did this because they were trying to show how what young girls see in images is what they will try and be. Young girls who see a pretty girl lifting up their shirt will see that and say, “Hmmm, well to be a pretty girl I guess that’s what I have to do too.” The mimicry in the photo symbolized the wide spread mimicry that young impressionable girls involve themselves in to be like the images in the media.
I agree with alexis because beauty isnt everything. they didnt have make up i the old days to change who they really where just for guys. but every year this is an issue.
This girl wants to have the body of the girl in the magazines. She is checking to see if her body is as good as the women she sees. She is comparing herself to them. This is unhealthy to try to be something that your not, especially when these girls shown are completely altered in the process of making the picture.
This photo really represents the measures girls will take to look like women in the magazines. The main magazine shows the burnette women with a very slim figure, and the girl looking at herself in the mirror comparing herself looks as if she is trying to suck her stomach in to see if she can match the model. The young girl already is very slim. It only shows how young girls in our society at times can compare and struggle with their weight just to look as good, as the girl next to them.
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