Gazing

On page 119, I could only find one traditional convention I interpret from the reading. The image convention was the woman posing nude with a gorilla mask on her face. This was a great attempt to get peoples attention for woman artists rights. Especially male spectators. The gaze in this image was clearly the naked woman, but the image also got it's point across also with the caption below explaining the percentages of female artists in the Metro Museum of Art.

When John Berger wrote "men act,woman appear" he was trying to explain the nudity in the paintings which was predominately based on naked woman and male viewers. The image of women as whole sells and grasp the spectators attention. A good example of this is on page 125 with the Ralph Lauren ad. You have a man on top of a beautiful woman that is gazing at spectators. I would definitely say this catches quite a few viewers attention.

I believe I have a dominant-hegemonic approach towards the whole reading. I totally except the images that's been presented and understand there translation towards the spectators. I also like how the book used the movie Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock on the example of gazing. The character in the movie named Jeffries had a broken leg and was confined to the wheelchair in his apartment. He ends up spending most of his time staring at the window of his apartment at various of people that walk the street, but the people on the street can't see him. This is a good interpretation of gazing and we as humans perform this act unconsciously at times.