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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Replying to @ytspar
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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They're mostly straight
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