How do social political opinions influence Sheila Bright and Laurie Simmons into constructing reality?

How do social and political opinions influence the work of Sheila Bright and Lauri Simmons in constructing reality

• Think about an opening that will draw your reader in e.g. you can use an opening quote that sets the scene. Or think more philosophically about the nature of photography and and feeble relationship with reality.
• You should include in your introduction an outline of your intention of your study e.g.
• This form of work interests me
• As a teenager myself who has grown up influenced through different types of medium
• My personal study will focus on the construction of fantasy within society. Within my work I will explore what creates this fantasy from childhood such as the media, stereotypes and the childish mind. My project will address matters that match my views of society such as the idea of cradle to grave and unrealistic constructs such as unrealistic body images. I plan to uses images of toys and dolls that represent the childish mind and the fantasy society constructed at childhood. I will also take images of real things to represent my awakening to the bigger world and picture. You eventually realise how society is structured in a cradle to grave format and how the way we think is manipulated from a young age. I believe that now in the 21st century because of things like trends and social media it takes longer to become aware and how because of trends there is less individualism when we are supposed to be living in an age of acceptance.
• I am analyzing Sheila Pree because in her series Plastic Bodies she constructs a reality that puts across her socio-political views. She believes that women are misrepresented by dolls, so to prove this she takes pictures of dolls and edits them together to highlight, the outcome being quite haunting. I am analyzing Laurie Simmons because she constructs a reality out of dolls and toys that show her opinions of society in a tableux viviant kind of way. With her work she comments on stereotypical gender roles. Both photographers believe that these conceptions of life start from when we a children that is why they use dolls in their work.
• In 2003 Sheila Pree created her series of image Plastic bodies which aimed to show unrealistic body images and to challenge western ideals of whiteness and beauty. Her goal was to explore how this impacted young girls and women.
• In 1972 after her work, ‘objects with legs’ Laurie Simmons found an antique doll house and was inspired with how is represented roles in society and matched how many saw the world at the times. This was during the second wave feminist movement who saw dolls as creating unrealistic body images and domestic indoctrination for young girls. Her work borders tableaux viviant in the way that in most of her pieces she has set up dolls to be carrying out stereotypical domestic roles.
• What links are there with your previous studies?
• What have you explored so far in your Coursework or what are you going to photograph?
• How did or will your work develop.
• What camera skills, techniques or digital processes in Photoshop have or are you going to experiment with?

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