ARTICLES/FILM: On Photoshopping, French Law and Perceptions of Beauty
Bill Chapman sent these great links out via Frank Baker's Media listserve..
1. An article from the New York Times
FASHION & STYLE | December 03, 2009
Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label?
By STEVEN ERLANGER
A French politician is creating a small furor with a proposal to require all digitally altered photographs of people used in advertising be labeled as retouched.
2. information about a related film project...
34 x 25 x 36 is Jesse Epstein’s third installment in a trilogy of films (along with The Guarantee and the Sundance award-winning Wet Dreams and False Images) examining issues of body image from quirky and revealing angles. This time, we are taken into the inner workings of the Patina V Mannequin Factory in City of Industry, Calif., where the artistry, craft and marketing that go into creating “the ideal woman of the moment” — in plastic — are accompanied by a remarkable amount of reflection on just what that ideal means (one thing it means is a 34” x 25” x 36” figure). Patina V is a place where the owner will tell women (and then run for cover), “There are no perfect bodies out there. We make the perfect body.” And the chief designer harkens back to the roots of his craft not only in French 19th-century wax figures but also in the religious icons of medieval times.
The whole film is a seven minute short - found here. PBS has a teacher's guide to go with the film - overview & PDF.
He also suggested a link to the filmmaker's interesting blog...
http://jessedocs.blogspot.com/
SOME RELATED RESOURCES @ MCPOP
I think this is an important issue to discuss with 6-12 students. I also just posted information about a BBC show called "I'm a Boy Anorexic." This is a nice starting place for those of you wondering where to start looking at the male side of this issue. The clips of the show at the BBC site are extremely teachable!
Lots of posts on this topic have been dropped all over the Ning. Many of them hang out in the Identity: Gender, Race, Sexuality & Other Tricky Stuff group
See:
GENDER, BODIES & SEXUALITY (THIS IS THE BEST STARTING LINK - LOTS O' VIDEO)
FILM: Codes of Gender
ARTICLE: French propose warning labels for Photoshopped models
DAILY SHOW CLIP: Women's Rights Burka Satire
Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century
1. An article from the New York Times
FASHION & STYLE | December 03, 2009
Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label?
By STEVEN ERLANGER
A French politician is creating a small furor with a proposal to require all digitally altered photographs of people used in advertising be labeled as retouched.
2. information about a related film project...
34 x 25 x 36 is Jesse Epstein’s third installment in a trilogy of films (along with The Guarantee and the Sundance award-winning Wet Dreams and False Images) examining issues of body image from quirky and revealing angles. This time, we are taken into the inner workings of the Patina V Mannequin Factory in City of Industry, Calif., where the artistry, craft and marketing that go into creating “the ideal woman of the moment” — in plastic — are accompanied by a remarkable amount of reflection on just what that ideal means (one thing it means is a 34” x 25” x 36” figure). Patina V is a place where the owner will tell women (and then run for cover), “There are no perfect bodies out there. We make the perfect body.” And the chief designer harkens back to the roots of his craft not only in French 19th-century wax figures but also in the religious icons of medieval times.
The whole film is a seven minute short - found here. PBS has a teacher's guide to go with the film - overview & PDF.
He also suggested a link to the filmmaker's interesting blog...
http://jessedocs.blogspot.com/
SOME RELATED RESOURCES @ MCPOP
I think this is an important issue to discuss with 6-12 students. I also just posted information about a BBC show called "I'm a Boy Anorexic." This is a nice starting place for those of you wondering where to start looking at the male side of this issue. The clips of the show at the BBC site are extremely teachable!
Lots of posts on this topic have been dropped all over the Ning. Many of them hang out in the Identity: Gender, Race, Sexuality & Other Tricky Stuff group
See:
GENDER, BODIES & SEXUALITY (THIS IS THE BEST STARTING LINK - LOTS O' VIDEO)
FILM: Codes of Gender
ARTICLE: French propose warning labels for Photoshopped models
DAILY SHOW CLIP: Women's Rights Burka Satire
Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century
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