- From this article on the Huffington Post.
Gosh, what a delightful person/company! *sarcasm*
Fucked up.
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Umm. Why is this not in my closet?
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Young women arrested on a Chicago bathing beach for wearing “lewd” bathing suits, 1922
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Eleanor Antin, Carving: A Traditional Sculpture, 1972
These photos document Antin dieting and they are taken from all sides of her naked body every day for a 36 day period. She is both the sculpter and the sculpted as she carves away at herself, removing fat. These photos act as anthropometric photography; a type of photography that was supposed to convey objectivity to measure the human body.
The main idea of this conceptual piece was a physical manifestation of the pressures put on women in Western society. She was inspired by how physical standards for women are continuously designed and re-designed according to trends, fashions and perceptions of society. Her method of carving her own body was referencing the -male- sculptor as he carves out the ideal female shape in classical art, and then puts that particular representation on a pedestal.
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"Gloria Steinem was criticized in the sixties because she was wearing a miniskirt. What’s that have to do with what she was talking about? How is that relevant in any way to her voice? Was she supposed to be like wearing frumpy clothes to have it mean more? What does that mean about women? You have to look a certain way to be smart? I think it’s so weird."Leith Clark (via msandrogynous)
