Find images in the media, which have been used to represent attractive and unattractive aspects of the human face. Examine and record carefully the photographic techniques used to accentuate both these qualities, drawing up a list that relates to the images you have found.
List the physical characteristics that we have come to admire in both the male and female face and write 100 words in response to the following questions:
Do you believe that media images or public opinion are responsible for the characteristics of beauty becoming universal stereotypes?
Do you believe people admiring media images of glamorous models can do any harm?
#1 #2
Yuriy Zhuravov Daily Mail Reporters
The photographer in image #1 clearly used a lot of make up to his benefit while also using light to give the skin a good look. However, the photographer in image #2 did not use make-up or even light to their benefit, but it is clear on what they were trying to capture which was the unattractive side to the model.
When you look at what is attractive and what is not, you can see that standards change over time and that is because they are constantly influenced by what is put on TV, magazines, movies, etc. This the the force that dictates what is "hot" and what is not. I do believe that listening to these influences from the media is harmful. People should not be so easily-influenced in the first place, but if they are, then the media is only doing more harm for them. The media shows girls that are very skinny leading other girls to believe they should look like that too. This is horrible because in reality, those models do not look like that and instead they have a lot of post-processing work done to their images by professionals to make them look "better".
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