Self Portrait - Back of Head

I have learned a lot by completing this project. Photographs can demonstrate many things about gender. Jeanna Dunning and Lorna Simpson's pieces give much insight into gender and the body. Dunning uses the human body to create color photographs that question issues of identity, sexuality, and the interior and exterior self. Simpson uses text to challenge the meaning of the visuals of the body and her photographs of black women challenge racial and gender stereotypes that still exist in America. Her black and white 15 Mouths is my favorite piece. These two women do an excellent job emphasizing how stereotyping (mostly in regards to women and the human body) is still a problem in todays society.