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.