In each of the advertisements, a fragment of a woman's body is shown, as a knee, a mouth, a breast, or a buttock appears before the camera, zoomed-in and aggressively cropped. The next spread is a collage of advertising photos, punctuated on the far right-hand side by a still life of a table set for a banquet. On the opposite page, a single painting is centered mid-page: the Rembrandt painting Bathsheba, depicting a nude woman with a servant crouching at her foot.
On the following page, five images are collaged, comparing various representations of female nudes from across art history: a Giacometti sculpture, an erotic-looking photograph, and an Impressionist painting are all all juxtaposed against one another. Below that, a photo from a magazine is reprinted, depicting a woman in an evening gown on the red carpet as three men stare at her approvingly. Both have glamorous hairdos, and a male figure is visible in the background, where he appears to be building something.
On the opposite page is a photo of two figures it's unclear whether they're women or mannequins. Next comes a woman seated in the backseat of a luxurious car, eyes closed, clutching an expensive-looking purse as spectators stare into the car window looking confused and excited. She focuses on her work, looking away from the camera, while three large photos of women-apparently advertisements or magazine editorials-rest on the wall behind her. The first is a photograph of a woman at work in what appears to be a photo studio. Women are central to each image in this chapter.
The second chapter of Ways of Seeing is made up entirely of images.
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