http://visualcultureblog.com Visual Culture, Politics and Criticism. Sat, 12 May 2012 09:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://visualcultureblog.com/2012/05/breaking-the-image-of-mother-and-child/#comment-56495 Filip Zamorsky Sat, 12 May 2012 09:11:39 +0000 http://visualcultureblog.com/?p=1385#comment-56495 The Idea is brilliant but I would say it is very sad that strictly commercial photography is compared to the Art here … This photograph supports the article inside the magazine. Without understanding the content of this article (someone is looking at this photograph without any text hanging on the wall for example) could be confusing. The Idea is brilliant but I would say it is very sad that strictly commercial photography is compared to the Art here … This photograph supports the article inside the magazine. Without understanding the content of this article (someone is looking at this photograph without any text hanging on the wall for example) could be confusing.

]]> http://visualcultureblog.com/2012/05/breaking-the-image-of-mother-and-child/#comment-56356 Jeff Miller Fri, 11 May 2012 15:43:10 +0000 http://visualcultureblog.com/?p=1385#comment-56356 The army-style trousers and grey do indeed reference teenage fashion, pushing our perception of the child's age. It is also important to recognize the signification chain one more layer deep, to the military itself. We are a waring nation, a nation currently at war and fighting an unending "war on terror". In this image our American child abroad, the American military, receives sustenance from the teet of the mother homeland. The army-style trousers and grey do indeed reference teenage fashion, pushing our perception of the child’s age. It is also important to recognize the signification chain one more layer deep, to the military itself. We are a waring nation, a nation currently at war and fighting an unending “war on terror”. In this image our American child abroad, the American military, receives sustenance from the teet of the mother homeland.

]]> http://visualcultureblog.com/2012/05/breaking-the-image-of-mother-and-child/#comment-56354 Dana Watsham Fri, 11 May 2012 15:29:16 +0000 http://visualcultureblog.com/?p=1385#comment-56354 How absolutely fantastic to see a breast-feeding mother who does NOT subscribe to the Disneyfied 'pink, pliant and powerless' image of modern women. How absolutely fantastic to see a breast-feeding mother who does NOT subscribe to the Disneyfied ‘pink, pliant and powerless’ image of modern women.

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