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FEMINISM AND PHOTOGRAPHY

The photography of female is going to be an interesting side everyday. It can be said that feminism and photography have created a strong relationship between them. Berger in his book Ways of Seeing said that "men look at women and women watch themselves being looked at" which concludes that this determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. Barthes described it as the "polysemic aspect" of the photographic image. Simone de Beauvoir when produced his monumental study of women's estate saw as "constitutive of feminity within patriarchy" and explained that "concept of feminity and masculinity may be a function of discourse and not of biology", while the former is "inevitably" positioned as other and the latter "invariably" as the one. Abigal Solomom - Godeau goes further in this point when said that "Otherness is celebrated and valorised, or perceived as a structure of oppression and subjugation".

However the theorist's explained it in many ways this theory becomes more debatable and more questionable. If they explored that "the language asserts the primacy of the masculine term" and what Godeau said "ifthe women have historically accepted is that of the man, and if language and image are already marked by that view" is already the main question of that "how and in what terms can the Other become the One?". De Beauvoir's point on "the analysis of the concept of sexual difference" lead Abigal Solomon-Godeau's investigation focuses on how this difference comes "into being", and "women from language" and, indeed, from all the symbolic systems in which a culture's reality is represented. And the final De Beauvoir's argument about "the act of specifying a condition of feminity" is "language asserts the primacy of the masculine term".
Using the terms such as "masculine," "feminine," "man," "woman", is another critical point for Godeau in terms of forcing them for any assumption. He argues that the concept of a unitary and unified identity, has itself been jettisoned, psychoanalysis having been the first and perhaps most important discipline to do so. Godeau pointed his critics on this concept and said that Bob Dylan may confidently invoke those attributes conventionally descriptive of woman (what she is like), but the impulse of most modern thought is to insist precisely on its nondeterminacy. As such, attention is focused on the production of the subjectivity, and the production of the

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