From: Jenn
The subtopic I chose to pursue is the unrealistic beauty standards on adolescent girls. My photo captures my niece Sabine, 8 years old putting on lipstick while wearing all her makeup and toy heels on her toy vanity. This is a great example of how toys influence adolescents in stereotypical feminine ways. Most girl idolizes the adults around and watch them get ready if it's for o
utings or party's they get to see the process that they mirror in playing with makeup kits into reality and this also show the unrealistic beauty standards that leak on over into adulthood.
utings or party's they get to see the process that they mirror in playing with makeup kits into reality and this also show the unrealistic beauty standards that leak on over into adulthood.
The creative technique I used in this photograph shows the elements of makeup kits, hair products with heel toys on my niece's vanity. I wanted to show all the beauty influenced toy that show how an adolescent needs all these products as they would leading up to womanhood.
1 comment:
From: Nathan
Hello Jenn! The picture you took is very symbolic and your explanation was great! I would also like to add my perspective on the picture. I think an important thing you did was the camera angle. The way the camera looks down at your niece can represent many things. It can signify that the use of makeup and those products are insignificant as a whole, and even though we prop them up as a society, looking at it from the outside, many see it as a bit shameful and unnecessary. The looking down part can also symbolize the beauty industry, as they just see girls and women as consumers and numbers instead of people with emotions.
Another thing that was interesting was the shadow. I think the shadow can symbolize many things as well. One thing is that even though the girl is attempting to fit into a society construct and change herself, in the end we are just humans. If you look at people from just their shadows, there are very little differences and that from different perspectives, we are the same already and shouldn’t conform to one set of standards. The shadow can also represent something darker. In the foreground, it is just a girl playing with makeup, but the reality of the situation is something deeper and worse like unrealistic beauty standards, the problems with capitalism, and the mental strain of society’s pressures.
Speaking of pressures, the way she is in a corner is very interesting, as that can represent how society is cornering her to fit into set norms for girls and women.
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