#vizrhet

This braun ad is hilariously effective. It shows facial hair in a totally different perspective and essentially creates an entire potential market of consumers- men with beard hair. The ad implores them to think about their facial hair as if it were like the hair on his head- which leads to the next thought that if one person styles their hair, i.e. getting it cut, dying it, putting mouse in it, etc. he should also be styling his facial hair.

Here is the article if y’all want to see it.

The power of 4. This ad by Schick Razors cleverly shows a classic tiger tattoo where the tiger itself is shaved as well, implying that this razor is so powerful it has the ability to alter a permanent tattoo. The representation of a tattoo’d woman also hints at the intended audience of young adult women. Women that might be more likely to dawn a tattoo than their older counterparts. Younger women might be attracted to a product marketed like this because tattoos have been mainstreamed enough to be considered cool in most cases- something most teenage girls strive to be.

In “Image Events Guerilla Girl Style”, Hanson discusses the differences between revealing nakedness and examining nudity. She states that, “Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display” (8). But what about if one chooses to reveal themselves as nude? In a modern world where the #selfie dominates social media, women choose everyday who they present to the rest of the world. Can porn still be classified as crass and objective nudity if the people starring in it elected to do so? When a person chooses to put themselves on display in that way, is it an issue within society that drives those women to reveal so much, or is it, like the Guerilla Girl’s tactics, a reclamation of male dominated nude representations of women in art and in the media?

This photo clearly shows how the same image could be given a different connotation depending on the context. But it also calls into attention the audiences’ reaction towards each of the three situations as they transition from context to context. Each one makes the reader feel differently towards the subject even though the image is essentially the same.

I came across a similar article (I chose buzzfeed because they had the cleanest lay out) that gave a description of the inmate and a picture of the food they requested. It was fascinating how I was essentially looking at pictures of food, something I could normally just go on instagram for if I ever actually felt I needed to.. but the context behind the picture presented it in such a powerful light gave strawberries profound meaning and chicken intimidating history. Just as all us vizrhet buds were discussing in class, context makes all the difference. 

If anyone is curious in seeing one of my projects for my visual rhetoric course here it is! I oddly enough had a good time completing this project, so there we go.