Representations of female body by spanish female photographers: a feminist viewpoint

Abstract

This article aims to disseminate the research conducted for the doctoral thesis “Representations of female body by spanish female photographers: a feminist viewpoint”. The research conducted allowed the gathering of photographs of the female form, taken by female Spanish photographers from 1980 to 2011, analyzing the meaning of the images, iconology and feminism that these classes of images of the female form portray. The photographs represent a personal and truthful image which for them is the female form; from how they feel, how they interpret them and how the female body has ceased to be a “passive object” to be that established as a” subject” in context. They reject the icon of a “female body”, created and exhibited from a patriarchal perspective. They break away from archetypes imposed thereby creating a new representation of what their body symbolizes.