“Being a model is tough, and regular check-ups are essential.

To ensure that eyebrows are perfectly bushy and lips are pout ready, GARAGE Magazine presents you with Dr Ffrench’s Book of Body Science – the perfect keep at home guide to all things beautiful. Night nurse Katie LYALL dresses our specimens whilst Issamaya FFRENCH keeps beautification under control.

The operation was overseen by Professor Brendan FREEMAN and originally published in GARAGE Nº8.”

After looking into Isamya Ffrench’s work, I came across her editorial for Garage Magazine that takes inspiration from the working life of a model and the efforts they endure to keep up with what we define as beautiful. In a similar way that models are objectified in playing a role to fill out the expectations of another, women throughout cinema history are portrayed to be a perfect woman and this is what defines them through societies closed sight. Following strict guide lines of how a woman should be perceived seems to be a steady motive to film makers through the mid 1900’s, however, Sherman has taken this issue and allowed a further analysis of the underlying emotions that circled the ‘real’ women of the time, and how cinematography portrayed an unrealistic, unnatural womanly role that lead to such an oppression of the female gender.

The joint motive of these two concepts, the unrealistic woman role of modelling and females through cinematography both tackle similar issues, and have been grasped in a creative and fluent way by both Sherman and Ffrench. Although they both deal with different time frames, they both tackle a similar issue through photography that is really important within the feminist movement and something that i would really like to work with. I want to take he concept of how Ffrench has displayed her work, but deal with the issues that Sherman has raised about women through photography.