I assume you’ve heard of the idea of the "male gaze" – the idea that in most film the camera is directed in a way that assumes the viewer is a heterosexual man?
It’s something I worry about in the photos I take of myself. While I’m not as bad as those that photograph themselves with legs apart, bottom in the air etc., I still construct the image in quite a male way I suspect. Ah well, everyone needs something to worry about.
Of course, in this one, my camera developed a male gaze on its own. I set it to focus on my face, but still my legs end up in focus. Bloody patriarchy.
May 5, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Yeah, that’s some very blokey bokeh.
May 30, 2008 at 9:34 am
There’s a very boring academic article to be written on The Male Gaze as Constructed in the Transvestitic Image: Looking at the (Wo)Man…. :-p
June 1, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Stephanie: I’d be quite interested to read that – do let me know when it’s done
February 14, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Aah, trannies, sexism and feminism – a minefield if ever there was one.
I, of course, am never found in pictures pouting with my bum sticking out.
I’m a big fan of your pics on flickr, by the way – pleased to see you don’t take this stuff too seriously