mildly curious what the fraction of photographers are men also seems likely that photos are a case where gender isn't salient to the viewer? if im looking at photos, its unlikely I will look at the photographer's name, no offense to the artists but your output is what compelshttps://twitter.com/womenphotograph/status/1036682733899186176 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I know a girl who’s a fashion photographer in a developing country. She gets a lot of attention for being one of the few women. I thought it was a joke when I first heard that. In fashion?
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that actually doesn't surprise me! i hung out with the local hobby photography (fashion photography?) set for a while a few years ago and it occurs to me it was overwhelmingly men shooting and women modeling (gratis on both counts)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
It wasn’t even presented to me as a glass ceiling problem - the editors and producers at the fashion magazines I know there are women and are always looking for female photogs. Basically, I didn’t realize photography was so geeky.
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hmm fashion photography might suck for het women, think of the effect of the intrasexual competition on your self-image imagine being surrounded all day by high-status attractive sexy dudes (assuming you're straight, plausibly this doesn't hold if not)
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ytspar
Just because a guy photographs well does NOT make him high value or attractive in real life. And being around those kinds of men does not lower a woman’s self esteem, why would it?
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Replying to @mistressmatisse @ytspar
oh no!--was thinking of the scenario: men taking photos of men substantially more conventionally attractive than they are I have no idea how status hierarchies, implicit or not, play out among other homosocial groups; was taking a stab at extrapolating from case of straight men
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Replying to @eigenrobot @mistressmatisse
I have to wonder how many male photographers doing men’s - or women’s - fashion (besides the ones with an ironic bent, like Terry Richards) are straight.
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huuuh, that's a good question too hard straight vs bi / gay work differentials within genders and across professions are maybe almost more interesting than the case where you don't do the subgroup analysis sadly bereft of insight consequence my conventionality here
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