Charlie Engel - Final Photography Project

Here I took pictures of different supermodels from different time era's. Going in order from the 50's to the 90's. I also took a picture of one of my friends, as an average teen girl beautiful the way she looks. And the last photograph is different body parts of the other women and how the society see's a women should look today. She she be tall, skinny, have long volumetric hair, and have huge breasts but a small stomache. No women is naturally like that and I chose to explore the concept of societies views on the women in our world today, expecially through advertising. This is the same concept as the collage below and its description.

Charlie Engel - Final Photography Project

I chose to base my photo project off of Mary Ellen Mark. I liked the way she took homelessness, loneliness, drug addiction, and prostitution into a new context of a beautiful picture. I loved that she was trying to reach out to others through the photo’s she took, and that is why I chose my topic as beauty and what the society thinks we should look like. The truth behind beauty is not what is plastered on a women’s face, but how she is naturally. The photos I took are inspiring to women who feel that the society has taken over what appearance should look like. It should allow women to feel powerful in their natural beauty. My photo is different because I not only took pictures of my friends, but I also took pictures of make up and face cleaner. I did that because those are two huge pressures of why girls think they are not as good looking without make up, or that having clear skin is prettier than having a few blemishes. I also took photos of women from the internet from magazines and what it looks like to have your face altered. This could be a direct relationship to the advertising photos that she takes, except I chose to put mine together in a collage. As one picture, it said one thing, but as a whole, it shouted ten things. And that is what I had intended. The true beauty lies within and who the person is, and I believe that is sort of what Mary Ellen Mark does with her photos of people from off the streets.

(Hopefully it is okay that I combined them into one large photo...)