Femininity and masculinity –

The topic, Femininity and Masculinity shows, not only the stereotypes of gender and self expression but also the beauty of expressing yourself. This topic really extenuates self love and ‘beauty in all’. Whether this is artist photographing the weird and unusual and still visualising the beauty in everything or the stereotypical beauty standards and displaying that. This movement is so powerful for not only the artist and their self expression but the viewers of the art and the impact that it may have on them. Gender is all about expressing yourself, and expression yourself in any way you may want to.

Examples of Femininity and Masculinity work –

These photos are examples of Cindy Sherman’s and Claud Cahun’s photography. Their work is very impactful when it comes to Femininity and Masculinity due to their blatant ignorance towards gender roles. Claud pushed boundaries with makeup and outfits, exposing himself and poses he may have taken, While Cindy in the beginning of her career photographed herself, and in the 70’s people thought that this exposure was daring. Cindy also made unusual edits of woman, with unusual makeup and unusual outfits, yet again breaking gender roles.

My examples of femininity and masculinity –

With these photographs, I wanted to push gender roles but also show the beauty of normality, stereotypical beauty. I wanted to push the boundaries to help give my photos variety but also help people feel more comfortable even if they don’t fit the stereotypical ‘normalities’.

Portrait photography –

Natural light portraiture, Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. When the artist photographs themselves or other people in a formal or informal way.

Examples of portrait photography –

I wanted to dig deeper into Claud Cahun’s work of self portraiture for this analysation. He photographed the strange and unusual however all his photos consisted of him, him in strange outfits, makeup and anything unusual.

My examples of portrait photography –

In this photoshoot I wanted to stick to the simplicity of portrait photography thinking about lighting ( chiaroscuro, Rembrandt and butterfly. ) Playing around with colour schemes and posing to get a variety of photos.

Anthropocene photography –

Anthropocene photography is the idea of photographing issues within the environment, this could be global warming, deforestation, littering, pollution etc.. It is the act of photographing the issue ( listed above ) and bringing awareness to it to help the problem.

Examples of Anthropocene photographs –

These photos are by an artist called Edward Burtynsky. He focused most of his career on photographing Anthropocene, pinpointing pollution deforestation and the general wear and tear of the world.

My examples of Anthropocene photography –

Overall –

Overall, for my personal study, these three topics I feel like will be the most beneficial to me and my personal study. They may be the most included due to the great and thorough work that was presented at the end of each both these topics.