Berger

Berger

Lisa McClain

9/9/12

            Summary

-Berger talks about surveyor and surveyed, how woman are both. He shows through the painting that women were showed as just object, how they there just used in painting for the surveyor (men). They did this by how they positioned the women in the painting, when they even put a male in the painting they had her looking away from him as in daring someone better to come along. They mostly had them positioned to look at there surveyor and have themselves lay or sit openly to them, unless the painter himself feels he cant even pretend she is wanting him and have her looking away wanting another person, with a light hitting her.

            Questions for Discussion and Journaling

     

-Iv seen women advertising in perfume ads and clothing magazines mostly. The images iv seen and Berger talks about are similar by how the women look at the “surveyor” and turned towards you so you can see what there trying to sell. But with perfume ads if its men cologne then the women mostly look towards the man in the advertising with them with adoring stairs. I think the images have changed over time, the poses the women are in have changed and they seam a little more covered.

            Applying and Exploring Ideas

- I don’t think that in modern day the women are positioned the same because there more loss and not so stiffly looking and not just laying or sitting, now the women or taken in motion or with other things. There just not in a bed naked to be used for just purely seduction, and photos meant for that the girls have a lighter background and not all dark.

           

Meta Moment

-I feel like it was meant to challenge us, its suppose to make us think and analyzed how society use to have perspective of women. Also how things are positioned for use to get certain thoughts or prospects. I think we were reading this so we get the idea of how if you put something a certain way can make all the difference.