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Female Photographers, the Phallic Camera, and the Male Gaze
If we must turn the art of photography into a sexual metaphor, this is how it usually goes: The camera represents the photographer’s phallus. The camera’s lens is the artistic extension of the male gaze. Female subjects “make love” to the camera, and by extension, the artist.

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