2007-08-12 // 22:19:43
patrick_winfield
wonderfuly gritty and raw images you have- i am a fan!

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^ thank you:)

2006-11-07 // 17:20:39
LATELIERp
this needs too be SOTD.
first: beautifull photography,and
art work.
but also the message behind it.
so i vote again and again.

^ thank you, even though the votes are too few for it to reach the sotd:D

2006-08-13 // 22:13:40
artpunk
Wonderfful series Silvia! The old magazine image captures combined with the stark red make for great compositions. I like what Carmen said about differencess between men & women...I believe this to be true as well. Physiologically we are in many ways obviously different, but, like Carmen, we (not consiously, just because it sort of happened that way) did not try and "gender-stereotype" our daughters, but watched as, like Carmen's daughter, they became little princesses (and little prima donnas at times!)
Of course gender stereo-types go out the window in our house anyway, when dad is a nurse, a role traditionally associated with women (even though historically the first nurses were men....but that's a topic for a different discussion)
;-)>

^ thanks for the appreciation!:D my parents didn't gender-stereotype me either. my mother didn't teach me anything at all about any side of life, my father taught me that it isn't important to expose what you have inside following the common stereotypes of society. so i grew up a discreet woman, feminine just inside. i'm the opposite of a princess, in fact people who know me often joke about that and about the fact that i always find a way to hide every side of my personality:) being a nurse must be a beautifull job! maybe it's hard, also emotivally, but it must give satisfactions.

2006-07-22 // 12:00:49
ruby74
very nice series,greetz

^ thanks:)

2006-07-22 // 00:27:00
tigalita
excelent, silvia.

^ thank you:D

2006-07-22 // 00:16:56
ulf
What made you choose those particular images? Do you find them particularly representative of a male view of women (the photos were likely art directed by men, or not?) or do you see them as representations of women gaining power and independence back then? Or were you looking for enigmatic imagery?

^ i was looking for photos of an era when women where between "independence" (or, the idea that this consumeristic society gives us of independence) and submission to the men. an era between the first (and, back then, good and necessary) feminist fights and the first mistakes. those are photos of a fashion magazine, which wasn't as bad as the ones we have now, but it is the "seed" of the errors of the so called emancipation. i don't want to flood the picture comment section with my rants, that's something too complicated, but if you're curious we can talk about it in our guestbooks. then of course i chose the photos by the poses and because they belonged to my grandmother. almost all of my works are dedicated to my family, my land and their past:)

2006-07-21 // 22:34:39
LiA
"the red series is about women who ask for recognition to those men who still claim to be better. the worst part of the problem is that those men are often husbands, fathers, sons, brothers that are supposed to know the strenght, personality, intelligence and efforts of the women of their family, but they are completely blind.
"

I think I like this part best of the whole text.
Nice series, enjoyed this particular one the most because of the expression she makes and the way you cropped it!

-Lia

^ well, that part of the text is the main part:) the fact that i don't consider myself a feminist doesn't matter much for the image itself:) this is my favourite of the series, too, for the same reasons.