Alex Greenbaum
Professor Young
Writing Skills
Workshop
25 October 2014
Blog
I feel like in a
way that beauty can be constructed to a point of absurdity. It
becomes something that isn't beauty anymore and becomes this
artificial monster that creates a self conscious individual out of
it. There are many times where people have to constantly compare
themselves to these poster board images of these models and such. By
constructing these imperfect human beings, there is this damage you
are doing to other individuals out there. Every person has seen that
well constructed model on TV or the web and has become this robot
that advertisements and such, have created. With this being said even
models like Cameron Russell understand that models are constructed.
By showing side by side pictures that demonstrate how superficial
these models actually are. It creates a more mature and domineering
look than what they actually look like in reality. It's pretty sad
that these models can get that self conscious and feel that bad about
themselves after these photo shoots are done and finished. It's
actually really funny that a lot of social media deals with this kind
of concept and even stars like Beyonce have created songs
demonstrating this kind of problem in the long run. There should be
more of a distance between what is reality and what is just the
construction of an individual. With this said more people like
Cameron Russel and other models should talk about the, not so much
dangers, but the overarching negatives to the modeling industry. And
why it can be harmful to an individual and the people around that
person.
http://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_russell_looks_aren_t_everything_believe_me_i_m_a_model?language=en
