Femininity vs masculinity

For my artist, I chose Shannon O’Donnell. Her work often consists of showing the way femininity is stereotyped and i tried to replicate this in my image.

Some similarities between both mine and Shannon’s photos are the links between stereotypical femininity. Shannon’s picture depicts a ‘traditional’ type of femininity by using house hold chores and dressing up in a typically feminine way, wearing dresses and heels. In my picture, I followed the stereotype of femininity by using flowers and nature which are often symbolic feminine stereotypes, since women are usually thought of as delectate or fragile like a flower. Another similarity between our images would be the colour scheme of our photos, both images are in black and white creating quite moody pieces. Also, both models in the image are wearing dresses, which is a typically feminine choice of attire throughout different centuries.

Some differences between our works include the location of where they were taken, mine image was taken in a flower field whereas Shannon’s was presumably taken inside her home, this results in different meanings behind the images. Secondly, the exposure on my image is lower making my image appear more dramatic where as Shannon’s is lighter, making her image seem almost comical. One final difference between the two photographs is the fact that Shannon uses props in her image which makes her message very clear to the viewer.

Overall, I like how my image is very different to Shannon’s, while still keeping hold of some of the key aspects of her image. If I were going to redo anything about the image i would of likes to use some props to help present the meaning to my image more clearly.