Berger Nude Women

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Berger then talks about the beginning of portraying nude women. According to him, it started with illustrations of Adam and Eve’s Myth of Creation. In a 2 page December 2010 French Vogue spread, there are 3 young girls pictured. One of the young girls is shown gazing into a mirror while another young girl is beside her looking lost and confused into the camera. This is an example of when Berger states, “The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight” (Berger 51). The young girl looking clueless into the camera depicts how women are to submit to men. Berger discusses how women are both a surveyor and a surveyed. He talks about how much women care about appearance,

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