User:Danielelliott247/gap analysis

Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Photography connections to feminist art


 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

I was searching on Wikipedia for black and white photographer artists who were influential in their work. [|Edward Weston] was a great photographer who took many beautiful photos of peppers and also nude women. The thought about his photographs of the nude women were thought to be in the categories of gaze and fetishism. Conversely his photographs not only are very appreciative of the female form, but he identifies the aesthetic connection between natural forms like sand dunes and the female form. These connections are powerful in that they aren't exploiting nude women but are giving them a symbolic connection to nature. Woman have curves and smooth lines that are soft just as the curving of a bell pepper or the curving hips of a sand dune. Weston's art celebrates the female form in a way that doesn't scream exploitation of the female form. Often in modern society women are exploited and Weston proves that through his art, nude women can be appreciated. Weston's photographs are not mentioned among any feminist pages of art. I believe the idea that when the female form isn't exploited, people can see that nudity can be a good thing when comparing with nature which could help inspire feminist artists and insight conversation on the subject.


 * Propose a paragraph of new or substantially edited content based on reliable sources. (If you are editing existing content, post the current version along with your edited version, and clearly mark which is which.)

The content of feminist art among the Wikipedia pages are substantially lacking in mention of male artists that help feminist art. Feminist art has progressed because of the change in female oppression among art. Although it isn't entirely relevant to mention gender in the art, it is important to recognize the influences and the appreciation for aesthetic beauty that Edward Weston brought, among others that helped feminist art.
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Weston, Edward. My Camera on Point Lobos; 30 Photographs and Excerpts from E. W.’s Daybook. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. Conger, Amy. Edward Weston: The Form of The Nude. NY: Phaidon, 2006 Heyman, There Thau. Seeing Straight: The f.64 Revolution in Photography. Oakland: Oakland Art Museum, 1992. Sykes, Claire (Fall 2012). "Judy Dater: Seeing and Being Seen" (PDF). Photographer's Forum (Santa Barbara, California: Serbin Communications). pp. 10–20. Retrieved April 5, 2004 ^ Ann Elliott Sherman, "Something Fishy", Metro, 17 August 2000. Retrieved 25 February 2013