Visual Pleasure and narrative cinema- Laura Mulvey

Mulvey notes that Freud had referred to infantile scopophilia-the pleasure involved in looking at others bodies. In the darkness of the cinema it is noted that a person can look at another's body without being seen. This connects to a sense of power whilst looking at another person.

Pleasure in looking has been split between active controlling males and passive female. Traditional films do not allow women to be desiring sexual subjects in their own right.

Mulvey created the term "the male gaze" As men do the looking, women are to be looked at.

Another photo..

Here is an image by Nigel Barker, under the cateogory of fashion photography. The car is a status of power and authority.

An animal pose in an environment under cctv observation

How can you be an animal, and yet not be one? The idea is that there is a sense of the verb to be in which something can "be" an animal without being identical with any animal. Each of us "is" an animal in the sense of being "constituted" by one. That means roughly that you are in the same place and made of the same matter as an animal.

Animalism hallmark claim is that each of us is identical to a human animal. Moreover the assumption that human animals are essentially and most fundamentally animals.

photo ideas

My theme as first investigated involved the involvement of hidden cameras and the power of observation. I have connected this to the theme of the location, with an industrial feel and cctv. 

The theme of power is also connected to the subjects of the photos. Animals are an expression of power. This is an extract of an idea of animalism. 

new idea

I've decided to move away from the autism idea, its all a little complicated! I'm focusing on fashion for this project. Looking at the work of David Lachepelle and Nigel Barker I have decided to create a scene, still encorporating my  current research theme of power and observation. I'm planning to create a scene with a car... a mini cooper. Picture will be taken this weekend..

First post

reflective building