Projecting Words and Bodies - STEVEN R. TABOR

Projecting Words and Bodies

Where do gender roles come from?

The male gaze, or male perspective, is difficult to avoid in art nude photography, for often the photographers are male, while most models are female. From a feminist vantage point, the male gaze is the act of depicting women from a heterosexual perspective that represents women as objects for the pleasure of the male viewer.

For this series images of short poems and vintage playboy playmates were projected, using a mini-beamer, onto a model, Maya, who posed against a light background.

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