"A woman must continually watch herself," critic John Berger wrote in Ways of Seeing. "One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." As a bona fide woman, I get the feeling. I've learned to both understand and subtly combat the way I envision myself looking to an outsider, when groggily preparing coffee first thing in the morning -- hair disheveled, eyes at half mast. So many actions are subconsciously played back to me ...
Female Photographers Discuss The Real Anxieties Of Being Women
The Huffington Post - 4 Feb 2016 17:18
"A woman must continually watch herself," critic John Berger wrote in Ways of Seeing. "One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." As a bona fide woman, I get the feeling. I've learned to both understand and subtly combat the way I envision myself looking to an outsider, when groggily preparing coffee first thing in the morning -- hair disheveled, eyes at half mast. So many actions are subconsciously played back to me ...
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