I was in a wedding this weekend, and while I waited in the bride's room, I picked up a book sitting on the table just to browse. It was called "Cowboy Hats" and just had pictures of different men and women wearing cowboy hats... no pictures of their faces were taken though, just their hats--some from a bird's eye view, some just head on with their heads down to where you only see the top of the hat, or the back of their head.
However, as I went through the book, I got closer to the back where I noticed more women. In the front of the book, the men in cowboy hats were walking their horses, driving trucks, working in fields, etc. yet each woman was leaning up against a fence or truck, always posed--not working like the men. Then I found the following picture that has a quote under it saying something along the lines of "Cowboy hats can be used for things other than just covering your head..."
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Claire, Yes, women as passive, men as active. A constant theme in the advertising world, and I guess in the world of coffee table books, too. I'll be asking a photographer to come to class to talk about this. Good stuff. J
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