Annotated Bibliography #7, #8

Observation
I see a black girl wearing a sleeveless white dress. Her hair is cut short, straighten and styled messy. She has a bracelet on the left wrist, holding a steel pitcher. She is holding a plastic jug on the right hand. She is pouring out water from both pitchers. The picture has two colors, black and white. She is black, and she is wearing a white dress. She is holding a silver? color, which looks dark in the photo, pitcher and a white plastic pitcher. Everything is curvy on the left and straight on the right. She bent towards left, showing curve on the left side as she is holding the curvy shape pitcher on the left. Her dress is hanging super straight on the right. It looks like somebody pull it and made it straight. The white pitcher is straight shape too. The pitcher on the left is lower than the right one. The face is not shown in the photo.

Inference
Simpson portrays two colors in the photo, black and white. She portrays blackness curvy and shapy. The girl not facing the camera showing her back, gives impression that there is something wrong and she wants reveal it. She is pouring out water and says some mysterious words, "She saw him disappear by the river, they asked her to tell what happened, only to discount her memory." It is saying that she is willing to tell what she knows but people refuse to listen. Maybe because she is little, black, or she is a female? On page 144, "Cinema has always been the act of white boys showing off for other white boys...whiteness, maleness, and need to 'show off' the power of both account for his taking action" (Hilton). This was the trend for cinema that time, but Simpson (and Mariannes) replace this trend. "That Simpson insists on her female subjects..." (145).

Simpson knows how to control the photo. The article says, "Words, faces, bodies-these are the essential building blocks one must use t create a narrative about being" (146). And "Photographs do not speak, but they can speak volumes about what the photographer means them to say about his or her subject, living and breathing and dying in the frame" (144). These control of photo is seen on the photo that I am working on, Waterbearer. Her not including the face in the photo and also shooting the back of the girl gives stronger impression, catches attention and make the audience to care what the girl is trying to say. Then when the audience read the caption, it is very strong. Sometimes absentia delivers messages more effectively than the presence. Her other works like a shoot of a women's shoes delivers its history, the owner's history, and the owner's message.

Observation
I see a person with big hair, big black circle sunglasses, mustaches, black outfit a hand around the person's lips. The bubble contains a shocking words. The person has a smooth nice skin and the hand looks nice as well.

Inference
The model in the photo is a woman seeing nice smooth skin and hand. Maybe she put a fake mustache to look like a man? Why? and she says something what would be considered as a "men's topic"which is related to sexuality. Then, 'masturbate' is something normally men would do. We live in the time where there are more rights to the women, and piper is from the time where there was more distinctive gender discrimination. Even more, there was gender and race stereotype.
On page 233, "black women had previously created...silence...in order to counter stereotypes of black hyper sexuality" (Acting Like A Man). Nevertheless, what piper did is shocking stereotype breaking work. acting like a man challenges "normative femininity, but also reiterating the gendered articulation of blackness" (239). This photo reveals the voice of females, calls for feminists and female to reveal themselves, their identities as well as their sexualities. This photo is liberate that absolutely breaks gender and race stereotype and present shocks to the audience and to society. This shows how a woman can be powerful and have equal power as men. Actually looks like the woman in the photo seems more powerful than a man and looks very confident.

I really like when she recognizes the difference between being whistled at and being seen by other artists and critics on page 252. Being whistled at gives an impression that a man looking at a woman calling for sexual pleasure. He is treating a woman like someone lower than him, treating with no respect, like a toy he has for a short period of time to have fun. If he does not look at a woman lower than him and see her with respect, he would dress up nice, approach carefully with a bouquet of flower, walk up to her carefully (instead of calling her with whistle like calling his pet). Ask for her consent, and get it if she approves it. Piper's work supports women's right of being on streets unharnessed and unharmed (252). Piper's work I think shows gender and race movement.