and are Sull acoiclea Bassive possessively. They were depicted standing seated epicted. or reclining. They WELC dressed but often naked: the nude was and de chece coe sex. ual and possessive gaze of the artist, the spectator, and owner of the artwork Take the example of two Ancient. (treet sculptures One is of a naked man, the other voman. In their these tigures represculca respeCuely amnete and a slave or concubine.
Far from being a hanexhibition tound muse t I was no longer a observer male visitor who scrutinised, dissected analysed i assumed ues which had assumed were insician were identity and cherished securely. werc ocus Ica up as role-playing assumptions by others.
Joan Wakelin's photograph cheerful mue-soallerca rooloalet. sitting knees-up nolding beer bottle and have merely good sports photo. Except that a male •notograonct WOUk nave uncercul hearty good-life message by capturing the moment when man s pens advertently slipped out from his shorts I am shocked. So that's what it feels like to be portrayed in a 'crotch' shot.
Wakelin's Man and Girl equally disturbing. seated stares complacently at the camera