The Camera’s Eye and I: Image-ing the First Person Singular
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Wendy C. Turgeon [1]
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[1] St. Joseph's College, New York
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- Localización: Exploring Visual Literacy Inside, Outside and Through the Frame / Aundreta Conner Farris (ed. lit.), Frieda Pattenden (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 9781848881129, págs. 169-175
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In a faculty/student collaboration in a course on Philosophy and Women, we deconstructed a number of images of women from an array of sources (print, visual media, internet-based.) Using Griselda Pollack’s article, ‘The Visual’ as a map, we traced the rise of the image as an increasingly powerful form of both communication and definition. Since many images of women are created by men to be viewed by men, this raises questions of authority, power, and position. Who is doing the seeing and who is being seen? Collectively we uncovered and analysed the implicit and explicit meanings in these images so as to chart the effects of the visual on women’s self-images. How do girls and women ‘read’ these images as codes for self-correction and placement of women within society? Are these images helpful in guiding women towards new ways of imagining themselves or are they limiting in establishing other-imposed boundaries? Are images created and owned by women distinctly different than those from men? To what extent do women need to find themselves reflected in these images so as to accept who they are? Can I define myself in opposition to these images and at what gain or cost? Do images offer another narrative, at odds with the acknowledged 21 st century trope on women in society? These were some of the questions that we explored and this chapter reports on our collective findings.
