The media object I have chosen is the Paper Magazine’s cover photo of winter 2014 issue featuring 34 year old famous reality TV star, model, actress, businesswomen and entrepreneur named Kim Kardashian. Paper Magazine is an independent New York City based magazine which focuses on pop culture, fashion, art, music and film. There were a lot of cover of other models and famous celebrities like Katy Perry, Fergie and Mariah Carey. And many of these photo covers were captured by a famous French contemporary photographer and designer, Jean Paul Goude. He re-created his most famous shot for the winter 2014 issue of Paper Magazine which was based on his 1976 shot of a black woman Carolina Beaumont which was referred to as the “Champagne Incident”. …show more content…
In the article Yes, Those Kim Kardashian Photos Are About Race by Bethonie Butler, Kierna Mayo, who is the vice president of digital content for Ebony, discussed about Kim Kardashian’s photo-shoot saying “Kardashian has been able to capitalize on her body in a way that black women historically have not”. He gave an example back in 1990’s about hip hop music videos where clad dancers were underpaid and exploited and that black women’s bodies especially their rear ends have been used for commerce and conversation for a very long …show more content…
The idea of Kim Kardashian being able to pose nude photos is related to the idea of ideology. According to Dick Hebdige, ideology has dominant effect which has the interest of dominant groups in society. This idea is also related to hegemony which refers to the dominance effect where certain social groups have the authority over subgroups where Dick Hebdige defined hegemony in his article the meaning of style “a provisional alliance of certain social groups can exert “total social authority” over other subordinate groups” (Dick Hebdige, 150). Kim in this case, was able to produce the dominant effect, which is spreading her nude photos to the public. She has the power over the public even though she knows she will get way too many criticism but still she did what she felt was right.
In comparison to some of other Kim Kardashian’s photo-shoots such as the Playboy shots, when Kim posed some nude images, she was actually uncomfortable with the idea being nude. The images featured with strings of pearls covered up some of her body parts. And by looking at the Paper Magazine photos, she does have pearls again but this time on her neck and with the body parts she tried to keep covered in the previous shots, she is using it now to break the
During the 60s through Esquire magazine covers, at that period all around the world was changing. Using the covers, George Lois would display messages that made the public feel the need to speak up against issues like racism, feminism, and the Vietnam War. He created impact, drawing the attention of the readers to pick up the magazines that displayed debatable images. Lois told Insight: Essentials that “It became an important part of not reflecting the culture but of helping to lead the culture.” The magazines displayed the history of this era as the world was changing. One of the magazine covers, that sparked a wake-up call to the nation, was one of simply words of a U.S soldier: “Oh my God-we hit a little girl.” This risk made the nation open their eyes to the war’s horr...
Beyoncé who is a pop icon shows off her body, and the females in the African American culture craves to have a body like hers. There are a lot of famous women who execute plastic surgery to have a bigger butt and smaller waist. There have been reports of females
It is not uncommon to hear people complaining about what they hear on the news. Everyone knows it and the media themselves knows it as well. Some of the most renowned journalists have even covered the the media’s issues in detail. Biased news outlets have flooded everyday news. We find that journalism’s greatest problems lie in the media’s inability for unbiased reporting, the tendency to use the ignorance of their audience to create a story, and their struggles to maintain relevance.
In The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto, Imani Perry argues that the over-sexualized, unattainable bodies of black women in popular culture will lead to the breakdown of feminism and the positive body image of the everyday black women. As hip hop music continues to become more popular, the sexist messages presented in lyrics and music videos are becoming more common to the everyday public, including young black girls developing a self-image. Instead of these girls being exposed to healthy, positive role models who encourage individuality and that there is more to a woman than her body they are given hip hop video models whose only purpose is to look sensual on screen. The strong women that do exist in the hip hop genre are pushed to sexualize themselves or their lyrics to sell records or stay relatively unknown. Although Perry’s arguments are logical, I believe that she is creating a slippery slope of logic. A genre of music cannot destroy the self-image of black women that has existed for generations.
Cox’s work is exactly the type of discussion that is needed to move the discourse on black women’s bodies from being regarded as part of a stereotype to being regarded as individuals with beautiful differences. This is not a ‘re-mirroring’ of the ‘un-mirrored,’ but rather a creation of a new image, void of previous misconceptions but filled with individuality. The stereotypes concerning black women’s bodies needs to be abolished, not reinvented like Hobson suggests in “Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture.”
One of the factors that heavily influence the continuing propagation of these ideas associated with the sexuality of racialized women is the production and dissemination of media images, symbols and narratives (Brooks & Hébert, 2006, p. 297). As a society who is constantly consuming media culture through various media outlets, television uses a combination of methods in imagery, symbolization, and narration to represent our social realities. Notions of what beauty means are further dictated by fashion and reality television shows, which includes shows that discuss trends, makeovers, modeling, and more. In turn, these television programs often targeted at young women themselves, continue to shape how society views women of color, particularly how women of color are superfi...
Have you ever picked up a magazine and then put it down because you didn’t think it would interest you? All magazines have intended audiences. Times magazine is specifically directed towards rich middle aged men with families (a wife and kids) and college degrees, who have an interest in the world around them and run their own businesses. The intended audience of this magazine is supported by the authors of the articles, the ads in the magazines, the subjects of the articles in the magazines, and the color schemes of the magazines along with their formats.
Instead, women are portrayed as a piece of meat to the world by the more skin they show; proving that sex sells. Some female artists do not present thems...
Looking at the photographic image of Lindsay Lohan from “sugar” magazine and of Jennifer Lopez in “cosmopolitan” they are both the central focus of the articles as when the reader first turns to that page the first thing they will see is the picture furthermore pleasing the audience by showing off her looks and figure. The portrait image of Lindsay has a portrait border this importance of the picture is shown. The image is too casual and sexy for her age with no expression gazing at the readers, on her face which may suggest that there is an air of mystery around her the way that she is faced towards us and her positioning of the lights. The photograph has a soft focus when there is a soft focus they want you to focus on Lohan but because her make up is heavy around the eyes and her lips are open signifying seduction
As a growing society, we have come to love our internet and all the information that we can access because of it. There are many positive aspects and negative aspects that can affect our brain because of having this internet at our fingertips. I believe that the internet has come to change our brain in an overall positive way. In “Mind Over Mass Media”, by Steven Pinker, he expresses how having the internet can change our brain in a positive way by making us become more efficient and helping us think better, and in “The Internet: Is It Changing the Way We Think?”, by John Naughton, he explains how becoming addicted to using media can change your brain in some negative aspects like reducing your ability to concentrate and to think deeply. These two authors have different looks on the situation, and by reading these two articles I believe that it has a more positive affect on the brain than a negative effect.
When I first sat down to write this article, I was focused on the other prompt. After a few days of flipping through various photographers and their works, option B still plagued me. In the back of my mind, I kept thinking about how photography could possibly be of any use inside the world of creative writing, my major. I thought of cover art first. A lot of cover art is not pictorial in its nature, most all of it now is digital, but there are covers that do use usually panoramic scenes of nature, or are closely tied to movies These novels run headshots of the stars or action sequences from the film on the cover. Another, rather common practice in which photographs appear as the covers of books is in the genre of autobiography. Biographies usually present the grinning head of the person the book is about, in what can only be considered as a creepy cross between a mug shot and a campaign photo. Therefore, I had now destroyed my original thesis that photography and creative writing were incompatible or at least separate mediums that could not benefit from the inclusion of the other. Now to see just how deep the connection seemed like a reasonable next step.
Her family has over a half a billion people followers that watch their every move, every fashion trend, and every cosmetic endeavor that they pursue. The Kardashian clan has the ability to change social norms and influence others with a single click of a but to their millions of followers. They are able to make others feel like “participants in virtual [world that are] able to experience “becoming someone else” through the design and manipulation of their avatars by altering parts of their self-concept and relationships with other people, if only for a brief time” (Becarra, 2008). The Kardashians, unknowingly, are shaping societal norms through Albert Bandura’s Social Behavior Theory. Individuals are absorbing what the Kardashian’s are posting online, and they are observing and modeling what they are seeing. For example, the researchers at Texas State University- San Marcos developed the “Ugly duckling by day, super model by night: The influence of body image on the use of virtual worlds” study. This study looked at the correlation between vitural influences and real world influences on people’s body image. This study found that, “Body image (i.e., self-perceptions of physical appearance) is as important in virtual worlds as it is in the real world because virtual worlds are social networking places and, thus, social acceptance is desired” (Becarra, 2008). The
If you watch television, see movies, reed newspapers or flip through magazines, you 've probably noticed that beautiful women and men are everywhere. There perfect bodies leave everlasting impacts in our minds and inevitably influence the way we think about our bodies; thus, creating an ideal image. The ideal image causes men and women to do and think unhealthy things about what there bodies should look like. Out of all the women in the US only 5% of women naturally have the body type advertisements portray as beautiful; however, some women work to have this image. Famous people in media who have unrealistic bodies are playing out this image and setting standers of beauty for everyone. Clothing companies often hire models that obtain this
How mass media is using both Ideology and Popular Culture to develop societal expectations and social identities. This essay will look at how Ideology, Hegemony, and Popular Cultural Theory shape common values and expectations of society and media’s influence and compare and contrast differing approaches to understanding the relationship between media and society. The discussion will be contextualized through the use of gender roles and expectations, and how these theories develop and affect the female social identity.
...twelve actors at the oscars awards was the worlds most rewetted photograph in the world, with stars like Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong’o and Brad Pitt, received more than 921,000 retweets in less than 40 minutes[__]. It went on to get more than two million retweets by the end of the ceremony, now with 3.4 million [__] and still counting. Not only dose this show the power of social networks, it also shows the craze of the phenomenon of the selfie. The nature of traditional portraiture is to capture something enduring about the person, the essence of the subject. The selfie is very different, it's about capturing the nature of a moment. They are not meant to last, to linger in the memory in the same way.