The Gaze
Frontiers | Implicit Perceptions of Closeness From the Direct Eye Gaze
frontiersin.orgOne might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most
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Rineke Dijkstra and Contemporary Subjectivity
scispace.comIt is an appearance, or a set of appearances, which has been detached from the place and time in which it first made its appearance and preserved – for a few moments or a few centuries. Every image embodies a way of seeing. Even a photograph. For photographs are not, as is often assumed, a mechanical record. Every time we look at a photograph, we
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What is the ‘Gaze’ in art? — its(t)artswithadam
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