March 17, 2004
The male gaze#3
This is pretty standard in terms of the male gaze:
Gilles Berquet Link courtesy of Jahsonic. com
Berguet says that he was influenced by the work of Pierre Molinier. At the end of his life, Molinier turned to photography. He used himself as a model; he would cross-dress as a woman and then take photographs of himself. Molinier had a whole fetishistic universe at his disposal; he had wax mannequins which he repainted and made up. Most of his photographs are self-portraits of himself as a woman, though.
Something has happened to the male gaze has it not?
The latter picture subverts the former. The male gaze becomes otherwise. The woman is doiminant and the man submissive.
The otherwise is also a turn towards the sexual fetish.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at March 17, 2004 10:20 PM | TrackBackComments
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