For Kim and Class Compare these two pictures: How old is the woman in the black & white vs. the one in the color photo? Where do these women live? How old are they? What does their body language convey? What is being communicated in these photos? Both photos are of Rosanne Cash and were taken recently. The color one was on the cover of American Profile inside the Denver Post Jan. 19, 2014, a magazine that is nationally syndicated and put in newspapers around the country. The black and white was in the New York Times Sunday Magazine a few days earlier on Jan. 12, 2014. It’s amazing that these are the same woman and taken at the same moment in time. John Burger coined the phrase "male gaze" and writes about it in the book "Ways of Seeing". Susan Sontag is an important writer on theory and photography and wrote the book “On Photography”.
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