{"id":248,"date":"2010-07-19T15:59:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T22:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studentlife\/?p=248"},"modified":"2013-03-20T08:08:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:08:29","slug":"reading-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/2010\/07\/19\/reading-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Example of the sort of conflated feminine portraiture\/fashion\u00a0photography\u00a0circulating\u00a0in UO\u00a0and on\u00a0Tumblr… right now.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I really wonder what the style of this \u201cin\u201d photography (see: Urban Outfitters)\u00a0is saying about the current state of femininity, but have been too complacent in my\u00a0gentle admiration\u00a0of it to examine it. But what am I indulging in? The words that come to mind are: passive (relaxed), delicate, broken, light (of little consequence)\u2026<\/p>\n

This\u00a0picture appears\u00a0here because of how much it is like a dance movement. Which is why I would like to be able to say I like it\u2026 But does that just mean that I allow all these adjectives for the feminine to appear in dance? Furthermore, this must indicate to some extent how I want to be perceived as a dancer (and as a woman).<\/p>\n

p.s. The name of the flickr stream where this comes from is “arti_ficial.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I think it’s so important to be paying attention to what we’re visually buying into, as much as ethically, educationally,\u00a0and literally, if not moreso.\u00a0Visual rhetoric (along with movies)\u00a0can\u00a0be\u00a0so subversive–and effective–because\u00a0it (they) affront you while you’re passive, just taking in the image\u00a0as your eye is meant to do, while other acts of buying into ideals are more active–you make a forward-moving choice and it, in turn,\u00a0moves you toward that ideal (materialism, the broken feminine, etc).<\/p>\n

[for the whole story, or more parts of it, trot to http:\/\/honestmovement.tumblr.com\/<\/a>\u00a0] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Example of the sort of conflated feminine portraiture\/fashion\u00a0photography\u00a0circulating\u00a0in UO\u00a0and on\u00a0Tumblr… right now. I really wonder what the style of this \u201cin\u201d photography (see: Urban Outfitters)\u00a0is saying about the current state of femininity, but have been too complacent in my\u00a0gentle admiration\u00a0of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1],"tags":[131,171],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leah-vendl-11","category-uncategorized","tag-femininity","tag-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}