Day 91, originally uploaded by shalimargonzales.
Shira and I went over to the Annenberg for the opening day of their newest exhibition.
Beauty is different things to different people, different cultures and different time periods. The model Twiggy in the late 1970’s made the ultra-thin look beautiful; Peter Paul Rubens in 1600 helped to coin the term “Rubenesque” with his paintings of full figured women. While beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder, societal ideals and pressures certainly help to form our opinions of what is beautiful, and to that end the Annenberg Space for Photography is presenting a new exhibit to trace the culture of beauty. The aptly named “Beauty CULTure” exhibit is a photographic exploration of how feminine beauty is defined, challenged and revered in modern culture. Women have shouldered the burden of the beauty cult, spending billions of dollars every year in makeup, fashion and even plastic surgery—and as Annenberg says in their press release, “As much as beauty can astonish and inspire, it can also corrupt and subvert.”
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