e-Research: A Journal of Undergraduate Work
Abstract
Commercial photography has a tendency to force upon us a standard template of what the ideal person is or looks like. Unfortunately, the artificial standard is horribly unachievable and detrimental to physical and mental health, which produces sentiments of insufficiency and abjection with the self, especially among young impressionable girls. In a sick - and very modern - twist of evolutionary progress we find ourselves idealizing the depictions of models appearing to be on the verge of starvation. This article examines the power and sexuality in models produced through commercial photography and its effects on society at-large.
Recommended Citation
Bell, Christina
(2014)
"The Paradox of Commercial Photography: Power and Sexuality in Models,"
e-Research: A Journal of Undergraduate Work: Vol. 3:
No.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/e-Research/vol3/iss1/3
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