March 15, 2004
the male gaze and nature
The male gaze is based on the individual male subject as a spectator viewing an object. There is a distance between subject and object marked by the camera standing in for the spectator. We view the image as a spectator disconnected from the object.
The male gaze often positions female sexuality with wildness:
Jan Saudek,Who Cares?, 1987
Wild female sexuality gives us the seductive animating force, or the irrational other, or sexual freedom uninhibited by the customs and habits of a western Christian culture.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at March 15, 2004 10:54 PM | TrackBackComments
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