Representation.

REPRESENTATION

In media we were set a task to say what we thought of 3 images, we had to say who they were, that they did and what their story was. This is what i said.

Image 1

At a first glance i thought that this was just some old man standing in the street in a city smoking a cigarette. I noticed that he looked very different to all the other people around him. He is wearing what looks like some old trousers with patches on them, an old looking cardigan, a checked shirt and a beanie hat. He is also unshaven and has a beard. All of these features stood out to me and i straight away assumed that he was a homeless person living on the street in a big city. I then thought a bit more and had an idea of him being some sort of street performer or something like that, but neither of my conclusions were right.

The man's name is Doug Bihlmaier and he works as a designer for large fashion companies all around the world. His job is in interior design and he decides what the inside of the shops he works for will look like and what different individual things they will have in them to make them different from all the other shops. The clothes he is wearing isn't some kind of joke or act, this is his own style. The patches on his trouser legs are in fact dead in line and look as if they are meant to be there and are not actually an authentic patches used for fixing holes in trousers. Bihlmaier is well known for his style and deffinatly stands out in a crowd.      

Image 2

Looking at this picture my first impressions were that it was an intelligent man with a job in law or something similar. I thought this because of his clean cut look and that the clothes he is wearing are quite formal. In the picture he is holding a few pieces of paper and also has in front of him what looks like a few books. this made me think that he was intelligent and also that he could be involved in law or some other high paid academic line of work. Because of his clean cut look i assumed that he was just a normal respectably man.


The name of the man is Ted Bundy and he was a serial killer during the 1970s. when i found this out i was very surprised as this image was not the image i had thought of as a serial killer. to me he looked t clean cut and innocent to be a serial killer. Between the years of 1974 and 1978 Bundy admitted to killing 30 people. This has shown me that you shouldn't always stereotype people and put people in different categories just on what they look like.

Image 3

My first impressions of this image were quite mixed, i didn't really know what to think. I had some idea of the woman being some kind of weird model for a rather wacky clothing line, or that she was a crazy old woman that just wore really odd clothes everywhere she went trying to draw lots of attention to herself and the items that she was wearing.

Her name is Anna Piaggi and she was a fashion designer who worked with bug name companies such as Italian Vogue and some other big name brands. She is renowned for her individual style and is known for never wearing the same outfit twice, so this would explain the crazy outfit. She sadly passed away a  few years ago, taking with her, her epic sense of style and individuality.

From doing this task it has made me think more carefully about judging people just by looking at what they are wearing and how they look and has defiantly taught me not to judge a book by its cover!