Tag Archives: women

Should I include or exclude the body?

My research into the visual representation of race, gender and sexuality has thrown up some issues Do I need to reference the body in my work? Would I be denying that part of my reality without it? But if I … Continue reading

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Research on classes of people and representation: trying to draw some conclusions

I think my exploration as suffered from some mission creep over the past year. I began investigating dominant representations of women and then moved onto Black people but when I cam to explore Queer photography I moved away from whether … Continue reading

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Queer photography – a connection?

David Benjamin Sherry’s vividly coloured landscapes where shown in Apertures Spring edition and so positioned as queer. The images, natural landscapes were positioned on their own, next to images of camp men, gay men or bodies and introduced by Kevin … Continue reading

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Dominant representations of gay

This post is different from the others focussed on queer photography as it’s about dominant (ie heterosexual) representation’s of gay. Not gay people and not gay icons mind: just gay. The first search turned up stereotypes (icons?) and words. I … Continue reading

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Queer photography – more defining

Just a few more notes and thoughts regarding the subject: Richard Meyer: The word queer = means of opposition to normative heterosexuality Nina Levitt’s image entitled submerged “hovers between visibility and erasure, resolution and apparition” Emily Roysdon reimagines Rimbaud in … Continue reading

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Queer photography, queer photographer?

At last I have found a photographer who creates queer images without reference to the body. Catherine Opie: “the politics behind visibility and community”“I am not a singular identity”“my work is totally defined as queer” ThoughtsI get this. Opie’s explanation … Continue reading

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Gay semiotics

I found an article that partially answered my question in the last post about photos obviously speaking about  gay experience but less so in regard of how a photographer can evoke gay connotations without reference to the body? I typed … Continue reading

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Re-presentation, disability and gender: Have any contemporary artists represented disabled women?

I began this journey some time ago by asking whether there are any commonalities in the visual representation of women and disabled people. What I found suggested the answer to be yes and no. The common feature throughout both popular … Continue reading

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Re-presentation, disability and gender: Contemporary representations of women in art images

So far in this part of my research I have aimed to identify and track common representations of disabled women. I have identified how popular online imagery defined disabled women in quite narrow ways in terms of impairment and physicality … Continue reading

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Re-presentation, disability and gender: Modern representations of disabled women in popular imagery

The Family of Man The Family of Man exhibition opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on January 24th 1955 and has been shown around the world since then. The exhibition was composed of 503 photographs grouped … Continue reading

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