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Intention

My goal is to analyze the standards of beauty society holds for people today. In order to do so, I decided to take a deeper look on the beauty expectations on women since a woman's body image and how it should and shouldn't be is so highly debated today. I wanted to take lots of images of "beautiful" women online and arrange them in a way that would spark more questions that should be discussed: "Is this what we want women to look like today?" "Is this how women should look like if they want to be desirable?"

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Context 

I went online and decided to do some research on how people discussed women's body image. I eventually found the video above that I found funny, but also went straight to the heart of this issue. I decided to take her words of women's bodies further by finding those exact features to overwhelm the audience. I didn't want to take things too extreme like pornography, so I decided to find photos that photographers have taken to accentuate women's bodies and features. I also took inspiration from the below photo because I liked the sudden gradient and red color that brought out the issue of what we expect from perfect women.

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Process and Product

I went online and found highly regarded photos of what was beautiful or sexy to people from many photographers. Then using photoshop, I made a random collage of them. I made sure to collect a set of eyes at the center, to make the audience feel pressured to respond. However, even just the arrangement didn't quite bring out the effect that I wanted. I wanted a sense of urgency and distortion. I looked online for ways to make images look shattered and I played around with the color gradient until I found something that made the images still clear but intense. Still, there was something missing. I decided to make the question even more pressing by adding the girl in the center and showing the world that's around her.

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Critique 

I think I've brought out those questions with my work, but still it's not perfect. I wanted to do more with the colors, distortion, and make it less focused on the bodies but more on the emotion and ridiculousness they bring. I think I've reached most of my goal, but I wish I could work on my execution. I'm also not perfect at photoshop, but my perfectionist side still wants to fix the little pieces of the image.

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Reflection 

I've learned more about my big questions that I expected. I knew that there was a lot of pressure for women to appear in certain ways, but there was also an optimistic side. There was a lot of photos, videos, and people all pushing for society to move forward and not focus on these surface standards. Hopefully, my product today contributed a little for that. 

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