Icons and idols have used images to impact society forever, and have captured the ideas and intentions of the people who admire them the same. An icon has a self image that appeals to their fans and can make them stand out above the rest. Images are simply put as an out put for something that can make us feel confident, comfortable, and secure. Self images are considerably the biggest example of an image that society, as a whole needs the most. In the future, many things will have even more of an impact on society than ever before. Using images to sell products is an important way of business and life for some. Madonna has used images to make her life a success and has made it quite easy for people to have opinions relating to her career. Although many found her to be controversial she continues to sell her images by changing certain aspects of her self and probably has done it better than anyone in the world. Vince Aletti wrote that “idols and icons have the weight of memory, the volatility of desire. Images can be a consolation or a disturbance, an inspiration or a burden. We live through them; they live through us.” Society as a whole needs to see other’s living their lives so they have that source of comfort and have an output for their own creativity.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Images of the Australian Male in Photography
The idea of the Australian male conjures up many images in people’s minds. The idea of the down-to-earth, rough as guts, honest, hardworking bloke is prevalent in most people’s minds today, but this is not true for everyone, nor has the stereotype been around forever. In fact, conceptions of the issue male have developed greatly from the time of our settlement until the present, and different artists have expressed these in many different ways in different eras and movements.
Soon after Australia was colonized, the British wanted to be able to see this new land through the use of photography. In this era, photography was used for purposes of documentation, often in a scientific context. However, in this era there was a prevalent mentality to the use of photography, now known as Colonialism, that rather than taking candid photographs or documenting an actual event or occurrence, artists would set up images, place people in the shots, tell them how to sit or stand in the photograph. This is partly because of the technology available in this era that required that the subject stay very still for a period of time while the photographs were taken and they would have to be in a comfortable pose and not move, or the image would blur.
Soon after Australia was colonized, the British wanted to be able to see this new land through the use of photography. In this era, photography was used for purposes of documentation, often in a scientific context. However, in this era there was a prevalent mentality to the use of photography, now known as Colonialism, that rather than taking candid photographs or documenting an actual event or occurrence, artists would set up images, place people in the shots, tell them how to sit or stand in the photograph. This is partly because of the technology available in this era that required that the subject stay very still for a period of time while the photographs were taken and they would have to be in a comfortable pose and not move, or the image would blur.
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