My exploration of the body in photography is looking at how the body is viewed. We often immediately look for faults in any body that is photographed. People are always so quick to say he could be stronger or she could be thinner rather than look at the body as an art form. I wanted to explore this need to find faults in body images. I began by collecting a large group of ‘ideal’ images and reviewing them for faults. I then had some friends look at the images and point out the first major fault they saw in each. I tried to combine the different images to substitute in for faults that were pointed out. These ‘ideal’ body images can only be created by combining many other photographs of different bodies. This is interesting because I was unable to find an image of an ideal body without any faults, yet this ideal body image is so highly coveted.
I tried to use different elements from each of the images that slightly represented fetishism for that image. I combined all of these parts to make one ideal image that has very few faults. I was interested in exploring this area of the ideal image after looking at Nancy Biurson’s work and how she combined images of others. I was also interested in exploring this because I feel that when we view an image of the body we subconsciously identify something good about body pictured and something that is less than ideal. The images produced are not the ideal body image that everyone perceives, instead the ideal body image that the media tries to produce and make us accept. The images created could not created form just one person because this ideal image that is perceived by the media is never satisfied with what is offered.
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