The following pieces are part of a Power of the Image assignment based on an art project by Evan Roth called "Skymall Liberation". They were created by the Savannah, Georgia CAGS cohort for a media literacy assignment. Each group picked their own magazine. -sam smiley
GROUP 1: Candice, Hope, and Holly
MAGAZINE: National Geographic
COMMENTS:
As our group looked at the images from National Geographic, we noticed that the images represented a variety of ages, skin colors, and cultures. Therefore, we focused in on the positions and angles of each face. Many of images were facing forward so we decided to position them based on head orientation. We sorted the faces into distinctive groups that consisted of right facing images, left facing images, and forward facing images. We placed the forward facing images in the middle of the paper. Then we placed the other images on the sides according to the direction they were facing.
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GROUP 3: Rhonda, Becky and Triona
MAGAZINE: Good Housekeeping
COMMENTS:
For this project our group chose a copy of Good Housekeeping as a source for head collection. Unfortunately we did not get the date of the issue before we disposed of the waste paper. The assignment was to collect all the heads/faces from a magazine, then arrange them in an organized fashion on a support. After we cut out the heads we chose to arrange them on the page from largest to smallest. We put the largest head on the top left and the smallest on the bottom right. While we were working we noticed that the majority of the heads, especially the largest, belonged to white females aged between 25 and 50 years, most smiling and looking at the camera lens. The next largest group was children. A small group of minorities and men were also represented.
