I'm a Hitchcock blonde.
This picture was inspired by the many Hitchcock films that I have been watching this week. Hitchcock always shows his woman as unattainable beautiful blondes, sassy, powerful confident and free. "A cool actress with an icy fire". I find the relationships between Hitchcock and his blondes terribly interesting, it seems that he wants this fire that they obtain, but in doing this he extinguishes it.
He strove to destroy their power, he wanted to torture, belittle, punish these girls until they were bent in submission. In the process he trivialized his wife, making her seem small in comparison to these great unreachable woman, while she put him in the limelight.
Janet Leigh became a blonde sex object for the director. In the notorious shower scene in Psycho, the blade of the knife was employed to convey the impression of violent rape and sexual invasion.
"The conclusions that we reach are that blondes, rather than having more fun, are likely to be neurotic and threatened. Sadly, their sexual allure is likely to be both their making and, ultimately, their destruction. The reason for this is that it is only a matter of time before each of them meets their own dirty old man, whether professor or film producer."
This picture was inspired by the many Hitchcock films that I have been watching this week. Hitchcock always shows his woman as unattainable beautiful blondes, sassy, powerful confident and free. "A cool actress with an icy fire". I find the relationships between Hitchcock and his blondes terribly interesting, it seems that he wants this fire that they obtain, but in doing this he extinguishes it.
He strove to destroy their power, he wanted to torture, belittle, punish these girls until they were bent in submission. In the process he trivialized his wife, making her seem small in comparison to these great unreachable woman, while she put him in the limelight.
Janet Leigh became a blonde sex object for the director. In the notorious shower scene in Psycho, the blade of the knife was employed to convey the impression of violent rape and sexual invasion.
"The conclusions that we reach are that blondes, rather than having more fun, are likely to be neurotic and threatened. Sadly, their sexual allure is likely to be both their making and, ultimately, their destruction. The reason for this is that it is only a matter of time before each of them meets their own dirty old man, whether professor or film producer."
I want to give the power back to the woman within my photos. To give them strength regardless of beauty or creed. Faceless but dominant. I will continue playing with the Blonde ideal.
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