ICAM 130 Examples

ATTRACTIONS :



This is the cover of Shakira's first music album, Laundry Service. "they are solicitations, conductive excitations, embedded within networks of erotic exchange. " This cover is clearly showing the exhibitionism and the voyeurism of satisfy the consumers' demand. A attracting female  is not  wearing any shirts and she pose has a meaningful concepts of “attraction”. There is a obvious tattoo on her arm. It is claverly done by puting the album name on the part of her body which attracts others.

FANTASMATIC SCENES

An actress performing a bath scene. “It compels us to seek fulfillment through the gaze of the other: the elementary fantasmatic scene of being looked at (validated) by an unseen presence.” Even though the bubbles cover the most part of her body, but audiences can still imagine what her pose is and how she would take the bath.

IMPERSONATIONS

This is not a simple imperonation. It goes beyond the self-identification. By playing a female vision of famous McD symbol, it added its own meanting of consumer based market. Yet the character is transformed from the funny joker to  the sexy young lady.

INTENSITIES

Are we looked the same as the mirror image? This painting reminds me of what the real self is. "as if this were somehow the very condition of our continued existence, the marker of our worth. "Sometimes we look ourselves just unlike the one we behave.As we are nude, we become other to ourselves