I attended photographer Lauren Greenfield’s exhibit “Girl Culture” at the Skirball Museum
some yeas ago. I choose her work due to its provocative content regarding
females and body image-especially young girls. Greenfield states, “The body has
become the primary canvas on which girls express their identities,
insecurities, ambitions, and struggles.” Women expect to be judged by how
they look so some take to that and will never leave the house without looking
their best.” Some of the images include two teenagers in a dressing room trying
on a top and pushing her breasts together in order to create the illusion of a
bigger bust line. To me one of the most disturbing images is a Spring Break
antics in which a female college student is being surrounded by a group of
young men surrounding her like a pack of dogs and she is their prey for their
misogynistic behavior. She doesn’t seem to resist their abuse, in fact it seems
as though the attention she is receiving is somehow pacifying her need for
approval by men. I felt the exhibit was a power documentation of the way many
females (including myself) are socialized and objectified by our culture.
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