From: Destiny
In this picture I’m showing how the unrealistic beauty standards we have has a society affect everyone but especially young girls. In our society today and especially with social media the beauty norms have become worse. Everyone is supposed to have perfect skin, they aren’t supposed to age. You must be skinny or have an hourglass figure to fit the body standards we have set up. There are a lot of things set in place that if you aren’t in those categories, you aren’t seen as beautiful. A lot of young girls that have social media are really affected by these standards. In the images from “Girl Culture” it shows we are expected to look a certain way and be a certain way to fit in, and if we’re different we stand out (not in a good way) or we’re in the background. A lot of young girls look up to celebrities/models as their idea of beauty and what they should look like. With social media this has become even worse because now people edit their photos so even the smallest “imperfection” can’t be seen. When a young girl sees that photo, they most likely wouldn’t know it’s edited. Even if it wasn’t edited, they still see that photo and think that because they don’t look like her, they aren’t beautiful. So, they try to do things that would make them look like that celebrity, but it won’t happen because none of it is realistic. In my photo it shows a girl on a scale looking at one of the unrealistic body types of a celebrity. When people are influenced by others to look a certain way, sometimes they’ll try everything they can to look that way. Like going on a diet, weighing themselves every day, and not stopping until they can look like the goal, they have envisioned for themselves. I used the camera angle of looking down to capture everything in the photo and because girls look down on themselves. It also uses symbolism because looking at the photo of the model shows that’s the goal she so desperately wants to reach for her body. The scale shows she is going to keep doing it until she is at that goal weight.
Work Cited
Greenfield, Lauren. “Girl Culture.” Girl Culture, Lauren Greenfield, 2001
1 comment:
From: Sarah
This photograph was greatly portrayed in the way that the creator used certain creative techniques. The first aspect I noticed about the photograph was the angle. As the creator said, the angle is because so many girls and women look down on themselves. Today, there is so much pressure from society and the media that we subconsciously are always taking into consideration what we look like. In this photo the downward camera angle is referring to the bigger picture of how young girls and women look down on themselves because they do not think they are meeting society standards and always wondering how they can make themselves “better.” Another creative technique that stood out to me was the utilization of the foreground and background of the frame. The first thing you see when looking at the photograph is the phone screen on a picture of a women's figure. This shows that we are all so used to media presenting us with other women who are beautiful and have the “ideal” body. With the phone being in the foreground, it shows how we cannot escape the media trying to weave its way into our lives no matter what we do. Next, in the background you notice that the person in the photo is on a scale. The person is weighing themselves while looking at the figure on the phone. This person is comparing themselves and obsessing over their weight and looks. The scale in the background represents that a girl/women's appearance is aways in the back of their mind whether they want it to be acknowledged or not. The minds of women have been so corrupt since an early age that we are almost conditioned to think this way.
Post a Comment