BREAKING UP THE LIST AT NUMBER 8 IS NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST MATU CRONEY. IS IT EASY FOR A PHOTOGRAPHER TO STAY BEHIND A CAMERA? “GROWING UP MY GRANDFATHER HAD A PHOTOGRAPHIC DARKROOM. BOTH MY GRANDFATHER, & FATHER WERE VERY SECRETIVE ABOUT THEIR STUDIO WORK. I SUPPOSE THAT SENSE OF MYSTERY PROPELLED MY OWN FASCINATION WITH THE MEDIUM.”
IN PHOTOGRAPHY GENDER CAN ALSO BE SHOWN AS PERFORMATIVE WHEN MECHANISMS OF MASCULINITY APPEAR AS OVERDETERMINED. IF A MAN ACTS EXCESSIVELY MASCULINE OR PERFORMS TOO MUCH OR TOO WELL, IT CAN BECOME CLEAR TO THE VIEWER OR TO HIMSELF THAT HE IS PERFORMING HIS GENDER. FOR IN ORDER TO HIDE MASCULINITY’S PERFORMATIVITY, A MAN MAY HAVE TO LIMIT HIS PERFORMANCE AND CONTAIN IT AS NON-EXCESSIVE. A MAN WHO ACTS TOO OFTEN IN A WAY PERCEIVED AS HYPER-MASCULINE CALLS ATTENTION TO HIS MASCULINITY AS SOMETHING PERFORMED.
MALE NUDE IN ART HISTORY (C.600 BCE – PRESENT) GREEK ART / ROMAN ART / BYZANTINE ART / MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN ART / RENAISSANCE ART / BAROQUE ART / NEOCLASSICAL ART / 19TH CENTURY ART / 20TH CENTURY ART / CONTEMPORARY ART “WHAT SPIRIT IS SO EMPTY AND BLIND, THAT IT CANNOT RECOGNIZE THE FACT THAT THE FOOT IS MORE NOBLE THAN THE SHOE, AND SKIN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAT THE GARMENT WITH WHICH IT IS CLOTHED?“
924COLLECTIVE 