POST # 11

Nat Goldin is an American documentary photographer. She was born on September 12, 1953 in Washington D.C. Nat a very hard life; she was in and out of foster homes, which helped her shape her career. She one was famous for her photographs, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, in 1981, where she received this song from the title of an Opera song. This imaged described the drug use, abuse, violence, and aggressive couples. Another thing that she was famous for are her photographs of different drag queens in the 90’s. Nat Goldin then died in 1984, after having an extremely successful career on photographer.

-Below, is the image of Nat Goldin's famous photograph, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.    

POST # 10

   This is an image of Aunt Jemima. Aunt Jemima is the lady off the syrup bottle and pancake box. I feel this portrait stereotypes Black African American women. I believe that this image is stereotyping Black African American women mainly because of the huge hoop earrings, the head scarf and bright red lip stick. This is stereotypical her because most people say that most black women wears scarfs and make up. Another way I would consider this image trying to criticize and label Black African American women is because it is said that most prostitutes are Black middle aged women, and this is how they dress, gigantic earrings, lots of make up, and nets and head scarfs on their head. I chose this image because I feel that this image is labeling a certain sex and race as a whole, which is considered stereotyping.