Dominik Kosmaty blog post 2

Representation’s of women today objectify them in very similar ways to what Berger argues.  Women today are put on display very similarly to how they were in the renaissance paintings even more so today I believe for example you can’t go anywhere nowadays and not see a picture of a woman on display showing off or modeling for something whether it be a clothing line or car company.  Women are constantly on display for us the spectators and they don’t choose how they would like to be portrayed.  Women did not have control over there paintings and how they were portrayed they were arranged all for the enjoyment of the audience.  Today I believe the same is true for women in commercials and advertisements don’t have any control over how there shown off.  Sexuality plays a huge role in images of women today as Berger explains how the ideal nude painting was constructed by “taking the shoulders of one body, the hands of another the breasts of another and so on.”  He calls it either humanist idealism or an indifference to who one person really was.  Photoshop and photo editing technology, we have today does the same thing on a bigger scale people still think the same way the technology has just changed.

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