Proposal draft 1 part 3

So I thought I post all of the proposal here as it is today and will elaborate on particular parts of it as I go.

Key References
The photographers/artists and texts which are particularly relevant to this project are:

Name	URL and particular body of work
Sandro Botticelli	The Birth of Venus
John Everett Millais	Ophelia
Nickolas Muray	Frida in Pink and Green Blouse
Cindy Sherman	Untitled Film Still#3.
Nikki Lee	Part (14)
Francesca Woodman
Jean Paul Goude	Grace Jones
Helmut Newton	Vouge (France) Yves Saint Laurent
Annie Leibovitz	Susan Sontag (in a Teddy Bear Suit)
Richard avedon	Café des deux magots Paris
Robert Frank	Elevator, Miami Beach
Robert Mapplethorpe	Maybelle
Valérie Belin	Sans titre (série Mannequins)
Maya Deren
Claude Cahun

Aneta Grzeszykowska and James Franco doing Cindy Sherman

John Malkovich and Sandro Miller 

Name	Book Title
Régis Durand	Valérie Belin, or the Skin of Things
Marta Zarzycka	Cindy Sherman confronting feminism and (fashion) photography
David Gauntlett	Media, gender and identity
Judith Butler	Gender Trouble
Dawn Atkins	Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities
Dustin Bradley Goltz	Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation: Tragedy, Normativity, and Futurity
Michael Pickering	Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation
Katherine Hoffman	Concepts Of Identity: Historical And Contemporary Images And Portraits Of Self And Family

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