From: Lane
In this photo, I chose to show how young girls are being influenced by the media to look a certain way. This image I took is related to the reading in our textbook and relates to the section titled “Self-Objectification” page 242. In this section it reads, “Women who read beauty magazines internalize extreme cultural standards of thinness and are more likely to be ashamed of their bodies.” (Pg. 243) In this photo my model has a sad look on her face from not reaching her goals of looking like the models in the pictures around her room. Her body language shows how young girls can become depressed if they don’t exactly look how they’re “suppose to” according to the media. The excess amount of photos of extremely skinny models, that the media has portrayed as “beautiful” is her goal. The tape measure symbolizes a number that she wants to reach which is the ideal 36-24-36. In this photo, you can see how depressed she is by not having a 24 in. waist line yet. I chose to put my model in work out clothes to symbolize her dedication to working out to reach this ideal goal. On the floor next to the mirror is a bunch of diet pills, which aren’t necessarily healthy for you. I decided to add these into the picture to show how some girls are willingly to put their own health at risk to look like these Barbie-like figures in magazines and other types of media. Lastly, I used a white background to symbolize “perfection”. Perfection to this girl is looking exactly like the models in the pictures on her mirror, no matter what the cost will be. Young girls these days will continue to follow media and what they deem is attractive, instead of highlighting or enhancing what’s already beautiful and attractive about themselves.
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Pictures of models and the women we see on TV all seem to have that “perfect” body, which in reality is what we all want, though many of us are striving for it in an unhealthy way. The diet pills on the floor is like putting unneeded toxins into your body that will do more damage than good, but many are willing to take this risk to be thin. Instead of the girl in the picture looking at herself in the mirror she is looking down like she is ashamed to look at herself and the way her body looks. So instead she looks at her feet with a face of disappointment. In the pictures on the mirror the women are not wearing shirts, the girl in the picture looks like she is trying to duplicate their image but isn’t happy with her results.
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