OUDF501: Photography

Coward, R (1934) - The camera in contemporary media has been put to use as an exertion of the male gaze at women on the street.
-The image of the woman (semi-naked) almost goes unnoticed, the people in the background get on with their business. 

Eva Herzigova

 1994 billboard of giant semi-naked woman.

Male bodies are portrayed in an active manner, where women are portrayed in a passive manner for example the dolce and Gabbana advert.

Lara Croft

An overly sexualised object
A visual spectacle
Pleasure in the fantasy of  her destruction.

Artemisia Gentileschi - Judith beheading Holofernes (1620)
It's an alternative acting woman
Woman beheading man.

Cindy Sherman 

- Untitled still was actually captured as a pose not a moment.  

Sarah Lucas

 - Self portrait with fried egg and banana, obviously referencing sexual acts