Old News Interpretation

One picture I really enjoyed was the Best (Men's) Legs Contest photograph. The work was photographed on August 5, 1985 using a digital camera. The photo was printed on silver gelatin paper. The picture is taken in black and white and you can detect a lot of shapes in the picture. The women who are the judges are in a line formation while the shot of the man's legs form a triangle. The photograph was displayed horizontally and from what I can remember it was basically the size of piece of computer paper- 8x11. The photograph does not display any biological information about the article or the location where it was taken. 

The meaning of the work is to show reverse sexism. The photographer mentions that in the explanation of his photographs. Even though I think this photograph is to be taken on a lighter scale, it does raise awareness to an important issue that is always taking place in our society-sexism. The photo shows a mans legs walking down a cat walk while a row of female judges are laughing and smiling at him. Very rarely to we see this, since women are usually the ones being objectified and judge more on their appearance. I feel like some people may take this photograph the wrong way, in that it is very unorthodox and it was dumb to have a contest like this, but I also find it pretty sad that there is competitions on women's body parts and appearances. Also, I hope the men in the contest had a good time, while learning a valuable lesson on what it is like to be a woman in society. I'm sure there had to be at least one man who felt uncomfortable walking in front of all those people, and even worse maybe he felt self-conscious about his body. I am not saying that every man is completely comfortable with who they are and how they look, everyone has something about themselves they do not like, but much of the male society is oblivious to the pressures and expectations that are inflicted on women today. 

Three questions I have for the photographer would be 1) What image of his does he think is the most powerful, or means the most to him 2) When did he start taking photographs 3) Has he been working on any collections lately and he plans to eventually display