GAZES

scopic drive, scopophilia = love of looking (Mulvey, 1975)

It’s about the gaze we take on, e.g. female viewer takes on Alfred Hitchcok..view . all powerful…

Photography ofetn voyeuristric .. Edward Hopper

Also look at SaMMendes AMerican Beauty

In cinema we’re in the dark

Looking in the dark through a window… as a spectator

Our gaze is a privileged one. (mulvey)

Scopic Drive e.g. Gardner Home of a rebel sharpshooter, or placed we’d never visit in person

PTo photograph is to appropriate (Sontag?) Posses it, or posses a copy?

Leigh Ledare found his best friend sleeping with his Mum,a nd decided to photograph his Mum

Does Leigh have the power, or his mother?

What about taboo subjects?

Mulver looking is pleasurable as is being looked at

Sophie Calle – Detective

Watch rear window before Male Gaaze

Gaze is a concept fopr analysing visual culture

Bellocq – Storyville Portraits

If we cant look beyond the stereotopic view we well miss out

We learn to look at women from a male viewpoint even if we are mfemale .. (Mulvewy) e.g Steph herself is conditioned to look through the male gaze

Cf Helmut Newton ..
Men Act amd Wmen Appear (Burgin)

Julia Margaret C.. Men are themselves, Women are something esle

Marlboro adverts objectify Men for example, just as many things objectify wopmen

Bereger (1974:42)

Martin Campbwell (2006) Casino Royale cf Ursula Andress, Gaze shifts hi s- her; her – him, omniscient

‘Egalitarian Gaze’

Alice Harvey McQueen (Guest LKecture aerchives)

Nathan Jurgenssen –

Salgado is aesthetically beautiful.