Outside Influences Picture Analysis

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” However, media does not transmit the appropriate thousand words that they should in their images. The different broadcasting forms have corrupted the perception of beauty into something surreal, incredible, and, very often, unhealthy. It is no secret that beauty standards portrayed in pictures from magazines, and other similar mediums, make adolescent girls vulnerable to these false representations of beauty early in their age. Beauty fabrications are beginning to face an increasing opposition that is often expressed with images that depict their harmful effects. Shanea Gaiger made a great statement with her photograph Outside Influences (2014) which soon went viral on social media due to the crude reality it reveals. In addition, the picture Outside Influences can be analyzed based on its audience, purpose, and structure. To begin with, in terms of audience, this photograph is for the general public due to its message of opposition to false beauty standards and the impact of media on young girls. Although everyone is the public, adults, especially parents, and teens may be considered a most specific target audience. Children, being too innocent, may not …show more content…
Its audience, for example, which it’s the people to whom this visual is directed at. It was discovered that while it makes a statement to the general public, people of different ages will have a diverse point of view. Its structure or, in this case, composition is properly done to transmit the desired message. I believe that the meaning behind is strong and true. Many people hurt themselves and become victims of media’s beauty standards due to the degradation of self-perception that these images cause on the mind. All of these makes me wonder the following: Are false beauty shots making self-esteem “cuts” in our minds or can our self-esteem make a “cut” to false beauty