Notes on Beauty Queens - December 16, 2016

December 16, 2016

Ambivalence: Authentic performance versus Staged emotions

Campy qualities: overdoing gender performance

Vulnerability

At the hight of Joy an opposed truths seems to be revealed. To me the women seem to screem I want to break free from this fucked up system

Note: Candidates of beauty pageants have to be unmarried, no children, not pregnant etc

Ine: Bataille on ecstasy

January 25, 2017

Unpack the important and complex issue of me putting something upon the women that's not there -> Berger: Every image embodies a way of seeing. The photographers way of seeing is reflected in his choice of subject. Yet, although every image embodies a way of seeing, our perception or appreciateon of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing.

Explain political commentary

Read about Re-Mediation

Explore more: Fun Factor: I seem to enjoy the discomfort and feel pity at the same time

Think about the effects of different arrangements: circular, corridor

Think about evidence of movie posters

Look at Anthropologists on the subject of Beauty Pageants