OTOH, the photographer is also a sexual being who will, typically, find one sex more attractive than the other. The photographer will not be able to completely prevent their own sexual perspective from affecting their reaction/composition for male and female models. My objectification of any model is an unavoidable part of "reducing" them to an image. The extent to which this is sexism depends on the typical reaction of the viewer. If a gay male photographer objectifies a male model is it sexist?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT PESO - NSFW Apparently! In a message dated 10/31/2009 11:39:51 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: "Portraying someone as a sexual being first and a person second" sounds more like objectification than sexism. And objectification is something we do all the time, especially we photographers. We silhouette people in images and instantly make them objects (shapes, forms). We use shots of random individuals to stand for a general case or symbol -- objects again. ========== Actually, objectification IS sexist. Sexual objectification anyway. It is ONE of the definitions of sexist/sexism. Just a comment. Not telling Dave not to post. (Though a few more man shots would be good. I like having sexual objectification on the other foot now on then, just for the sheer unusualness of it.) Marnie aka Doe ;-) --------------------------------------------- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. !SIG:4aee58f976082773946649! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
