From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 09/14/00-09:50:28 PM Z
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Gary Miller wrote:
> ...One of the first assignments that I had the class do was to bring in
> a current magazine so that we could discuss how photography was being used
> currently. The women/girls all brought in fashion magazines. The guys/boys
> brought in skateboard, or snowboard, or other sport magazines. When I tried
> to open up the discussion about the way that women were portrayed
> objectified in the fashion magazines, I had no takers. I could not believe
> that the 15 girls in the class did not see these depictions as wrong, or
> disempowering, or anything more than an example of the way that they should
> strive to look.
Gary, you can't expect instant epiphany -- especially with teenagers, who
are slaves to their peer group & obsesssed with image. Even one who "got
it" might hesitate to say so in public. But the notion may lodge in the
back of the mind & be some kind of beacon when the time is ripe --
arguably more useful in the long run than learning to develop film (soon
to be obsolete anyway).
Judy
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