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Listen up fuckers, I'm gonna give you a quick photographic theory run down on the rhetoric of the wedding image. Starting with, did you know the last majour shift in wedding photography styles was in 1996 - the wedding of JFK Jn & Carolyn Bessette 24 years ago, AMAZEBALLS! https://twitter.com/PhDPhotographer/status/1337036590913368064
That 24 years later couples are still fixated on the idea of the photo journalistic wedding shot influenced by a pair of celebrities well before social media was a thing.
Wedding photography was once the domain of the middle-class masses who needed visual proof that they had, like Pierre Bourdieu point out in the book Photography, A middle brow art, a trophy that they had participated in the cult of marriage, the wedding photo as a sociogram
that captured socially approved behaviors and rituals . A wedding album only purpose is to provide proof that middle-class people took part in a cultural event.
Also explains why the average couple post their wedding photos online every year for 5 years - the fuck.
Also explains why the average couple post their wedding photos online every year for 5 years - the fuck.
Circa 2008 the trend of Boudoir Bride photography swept the globe, in which brides created soft porn images with the veil or shoes to present to hubby as a gift on the wedding day. Ya, but marriage is not sex work, amirite? Sure you can create porn for one man but not for many
Heteronormativity is so engrained in wedding visual scripts that when gay wedding became legal many togs did not know how to shoot a wedding because how do you show love when you can't follow the wedding photo list the has the bride leaning into her hubby's chest.
which is exactly why you do not see photos of the groom staring in the mirror pensively thinking about what the wedding night will bring whilst muttering to himself this is the wedding I have been dreaming of since I was a little boy.
In keeping with the it's the brides day not the grooms day - a visual narrative that has birthed a £10 billion a year industry. The bride should be photographed so she is dreamy, contemplative as she morphs in to the virgin bride *coughs* Dianna's wedding 1981 *coughs*
Wedding photographs are not central to the day, they are they making of the day. Post Diana and Chuck's wedding there was a boom in photographers staging fake joy and spontaneity shots - almost like the middle-classes copy what those above them do. Cheeky social climbers.
When is a candid shot not a candid shot?
When couples have no idea about the fucking language that shapes photographs because the don't understand what they see on @Pinterest .
When couples have no idea about the fucking language that shapes photographs because the don't understand what they see on @Pinterest .
The allure of wedding photography is driven by the brides status not the blokes changing through a wedding, bitch gonna want proof that she can use the Mrs title. A visual rite of passage cemented in images but it's the sex trade that is off .... suuure
cause you need visual proof that your virginity has disappeared, I mean, that explains the white dress, ladies.
Ya, cause know you can have sex because you hitched (a term related to a horse and a wagon) some bloke.
Yay for you.
Ya, cause know you can have sex because you hitched (a term related to a horse and a wagon) some bloke.
Yay for you.
