After we watched the documentary in class going over gender roles in advertising I got a idea to practice this out with photography. One of my friends agreed to help me out with this, and I should have let her keep her hair down to show that women can sport male looks but even though she has on a short haired wig, it still works. I found it super interesting while taking these pictures how weird my friend felt doing these poses. A lot of the pictures we found online of male in advertisements are with their shirts off, or looking like they have an important meeting to get to. It was fun to recreate these poses, but while doing them my friend mentioned a few times how lame she thought she looked while doing these poses.
Usually people taking or viewing the pictures feel weird but the whole time she felt kind of uncomfortable, maybe it was my year old wig, but who really knows. This is just one of the poses we tested out, other ones were her looking straight into the camera, holding on to the collar of the suit jacket, and looking like she needed to run.
Just a fun experiment that I hope to add more to in the future.
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