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Websites and Online Sources:


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Cerulio (2006). Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel. Youtube [video]. 24 May. Available from:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0 [Accessed 01 April 2012].

Cox, L. (2012) 21-year-old 'Real-life Barbie Doll' Seeks International Fame... But Does She Even Exist?[online] Available from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2133552/Valeria-Lukyanova-pictures-Real-life-Barbie-seeks-worlds-convincing-doll.html [Accessed 28 April 2012].

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Flipbooks

I have eventually found a company that will make my flipbooks for me because printing companies do not make them.  I decided to get them made professionally because it would have been impossible to make them myself as I do not have the equipment to make them look perfect.  I got them back today and I am really happy with the outcome of them and will use them in my exhibition.   

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf - Book

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf explores how since women have gained social power that the standard of physical beauty has increased for women. “More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers” (Wolf, 1991, p.10). Naomi Wolf explains how this standard of beauty in unattainable leaving women feeling bad about their image and needing to conform to these standards. She disapproves of the fashion and beauty industries who she believes take advantage of women. Naomi believes that women should have, "the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically."


A question that Naomi Wolf asked really stood out to me, “Does a woman’s identity count? Must she be made to want to look like someone else? (Wolf, 1991). I feel that this question she asked really helped develop my project because it made me think that by women looking through magazines (forms of media) it can influence them to change their appearance to look more ‘beautiful.’  Thefore trying to look like other ‘beautiful’ women shown to them. However this may leave women losing their identity because they are trying to conform into a different person, by changing their appearance. Once again the images covering the girls face in the photographic shoot show how a woman’s identity may be lost due to the media’s representation of women, the ‘beautiful’ ones.

Television Sitcom by Brett Mills - Book

'Television Sitcom' by Brett Mills strongly influenced my project. Even though it discusses television frequently it also relates heavily back to the media and the representation the media portrays of women; the “media creates the perfect woman, setting standards very difficult to reach (and even more difficult to preserve) and promotion women who seem to match this ideal” (Mills, 2005, p.92). Brett Mills discusses how the media produces idealised women which set a high standard in which women need to aspire too, leaving some women feeling inadequate and overwhelmed. Brett Mills explains that the media does not also represent how women really are (‘perfect’), “there is seen to be some disparity between the way media characterises people and how they ‘really’ are...” (Mills, 2005, p.103). It can be said that not all women look like these idealised beautiful women that are shown through the media, such as magazines, and in reality a lot of women do not look anything near these images shown to us.

A quote that also influenced my photographic shoots and the idea behind them was; “In the contemporary society, identity is strongly mediated by images provided by the mass culture, offering ideals for modelling one’s personal identity” (Mills, 2005, p.89). In the photographic shoots when the images cover the women’s face I want to symbolise how some women may lose their identity because they are trying to conform to these standards of beauty which the media set. Their identity potentially influenced by images of other women shown to them by the media, for example in magazines.