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ZHOU Yan-hua
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2016.01.010
Southwest University, Chongqing, China
This essay focuses on two female photographers in contemporary period, Cindy Sherman and Francesca Woodman in the 1970s–1980s and will do a comparing study of the visual strategies of their photographs. Though this comparison, the essay argues that both of them used a number of visual languages to represent their bodies in order to refuse male gaze. Simultaneously, their works reversed the masculine culture with a series of strategies such as a juxtaposition of subject and object, showing the absence of subject and exploring the space construction. Their photographs used women’s bodies as metaphors or cultural icons to express women’s anxiety or confusion of their social roles, as well as their struggle for social identity.
subject, object, feminism, Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman
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