On 11/26/05, Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 26, 2005, at 12:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > OTOH, objectifying women does annoy me. > > > You know, I hear this comment a lot, and I just don't understand it. > The main definition of objectify is "exteriorize: make external or > objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our > thoughts"". As artists we always objectify that which we depict, we > make it external and objective. If I photograph a bowl of fruit, I > objectify it. <snip>
I disagree. A bowl of fruit is already an object. You can't objectify it, you can merely portray it as an object. People are more than their physical selves. If you choose to photograph or otherwise portray them in such a way that nothing more is communicated about them than their bodies, if you ignore or choose not to tell us something of their personality, their "soul", their "spirit", then you objectify them. I'm not saying that objectification is necessarily bad; but that in my mind is what it's about. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
