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Archive for May, 2009

Summer time.

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

I finished university yesterday and handed in everything on time. I surprisingly didn’t feel nearly as stressed out as I did last semester, and I don’t think I was the only one who was eerily calm. Almost everyone I spoke felt the same way.

Some of my classmates were saying yesterday how suddenly they felt bored by having nothing to do, but I feel like I am going to have thankfully busy summer. Not only is my family coming over from the US next week, my mom is getting married, I’m going to see my dad in America and I plan to start researching my dissertation and my final project while doing my work experience. I am really looking forward to doing to my work placement. I have an interview for a place in two weeks and I don’t want to jinx it, but I really really want to work there.

So this summer expect comments on essays and little snippets of information about the theory of photography.

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Ways of Seeing - John Berger

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Recently I have been reading John Bergers’ ‘Ways of Seeing’ and concentrating on his chapter about how women are gazed at in art. He states that men create a presnce for themselves, whereas, women tend to internalize the male gaze. In other words women see themselves as men would see them. I find it very insteresting to think about this internalization and when I try to analyse whether or not this is true, I always end up going about in circles. As a women I hate to think that I would make decisions about the way I act and appear because I assume that a man would think something of me, but from experience I do know that it is true. I do do certain things because I consider how a man view me. Whether it is a negative view or a postive one.

But I also would hope to think that men also make decisions about themselves based on what women think of them.

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