Queering the (Camera) Matrix
Male Body Aesthetics in Erwin Olaf's and Ruven Afanador's Photography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21730889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Krystian Grądz, Krystian GrÄ dz (University of Szczecin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Issue | 41 |
| Pages | 163-173 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Er(r)go Teoria - Literatura - Kultura (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1508-6305 • E-ISSN: 2544-3186 |
| Publisher | University of Silesia in Katowice (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.31261/errgo.8302 |
| OpenAlex | W3126265463 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
In the following paper, the author approaches some of the visual work of two contemporary photographers – Erwin Olaf and Ruven Afanador – in an attempt to see how their work renounces traditional views on masculinity. The photographs chosen for this analysis appear to be a peculiar play with social conventions and expectations related to gender and sexuality. In their work, both Erwin Olaf and Ruven Afanador seem to disrupt and reject the economy of heterosexual desire in favour of a much freer – and unconstrained by propriety – expression of corporeality and sensuality. As a result of such a spectacle of re-creation, the body is redefined not only as a means of expressing performativity (or, the surface onto which it is inscribed), but above all as a medium of becoming which functions as a reservoir of ever-changing meanings
Aesthetics · Androgyny · Art · Human sexuality · Inscribed figure · Masculinity · Performativity · Photography · Sociology · Spectacle · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Mathematics · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |