Anna Gaskell

http://www.utata.org/sundaysalon/anna-gaskell/

Obviously, these images are staged. Gaskell is recreating a scene she sees in her mind. They aren’t reality; they’re a representation of reality. Because the scenes in the photographs lack context…because the viewer isn’t privy to the beginning or the ending of the scene…they convey an enigmatic urgency. They spark a powerful need for more information while denying the viewer all access to more information.

Another photo-shoot involving myself

Here I tried to go for a different kind of photo shoot, firstly I have used myself throughout all the shots, working with a more personal up-close and abstract feel. Focusing more on the objects or pieces of clothes rather then the person themselves. Wanting to create a narrative: An unspoken story.

Charlotte Colbert: Do writers and housewives share a common madness that comes from their isolation?

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/charlotte-colbert-do-writers-and-housewives-share-a-common-madness-that-comes-from-their-isolation-8963131.html

"Screenwriting is a very strange occupation. It mostly involves being on your own in a room with a bunch of fictional characters: your body tied down to its chair while you converse and live in a would-be world with imaginary people. It is very solitary and some of my screenwriting friends describe their office as their cell. Locked in with your computer and fantasies. A kind of awake dreaming. A sort of semi-acceptable madness or schizophrenia. As Marguerite Duras said: "Solitude is always accompanied by madness." It is filled with rituals, compulsiveness, superstitions and habits." 

Man Ray – Le Violon D’Angres.

Inspired by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's La Grande Baigneuse, Ray used Kiki de Montparnasse wearing a turban as a model for this piece. He transformed the female body into a musical instrument by painting sound-holes on her back, playing with the idea of objectification of an animate body. Throughout his career Man Ray was fascinated with juxtaposing an object with a female body.

Japy Factory III - Marianne Maric - Lamp Girl

Lamp Girls by Marianne Maric

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/07/17/lamp-girls-by-marianne-maric/

These “lamp-girls” were first conceived as an illustration of the woman as a thing conveyed by the “entertainment world,” but gradually ascending to a state of consciousness. These photographs were part of a broader vision: once the costume was finished, the “living” model put it on and took place on a white rotating base into a dark room. The public had the choice to turn on or off the lamp, the dress, the girl, the room. I wanted to “immortalize” this moment when a woman become a simple household appliance. That is how these photographs were born.

EVOLUTION OF THE FEMALE IMAGE THROUGH THE CENTURIES