The Gaze - Dr. Aubrey Graham PDF

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Lutz and Collins chapter 7 The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes ● Something that is looked at; perceived ○ Vector ○ Fixity ○ Line of sight ○ Where is that look going, what does that look mean ○ Gaze helps shape what we’re getting out of this ● Gaze all comes together ● Multiple lines of gaze suggests multiple forces at work ● Gender in terms of gaze ● Social context of patriarchy that gives the gaze a masculine power ● Neglect of race ● Lines of gaze tend to open up certain possibilities for interpreting a photograph and to foreclose others ● Seven different gazes ○ Photographers gaze ○ Institutional gaze ■ The Magazine’s Gaze ■ Choice of picture/layout ■ Magazine Reader’s Gaze ● Consent of subject allows reader to feel some sort of relationship ○ Reader’s gaze ■ Reading ○ Non western subject gaze ■ Voyeurism ■ Confrontational ■ Bringing together corners of the world ■ Racel, gender and age all appear in ■ Women look into camera more than men ○ Direct Western Gaze ■ Facial expressions give other cues to their moral and social characters ■ Decreasing visibility of Westerners ○ Refracted Gaze of Others ■ Doubling of self ■ Mirror as a form of national identity ■ Camera can refract ■ Gaze molds relationship btwn looker and one who is looked at ■ Magazine itself is mirror for historical, cultural and political economic contexts of its production and use ■ Fighting against boredom ○ Academic Spectator ■ Reading it with wonder

Voyeuristic soapbox...