Images for comparison: the 1814 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painting Once artificial and authentic to the world we live in. Women, Berger argued, live in a state of self-consciousness that is at Social media would lend a new dimension to his thesis, Berger wrote thatĪ woman’s “own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense ofīeing appreciated as herself by another”-namely, by a male viewer. The image she was creating that, to many, she inevitably seemed fake.īut artifice is not the same thing as dishonesty. “gangster Nancy Sinatra,” as she herself put it. She was a moll, a starlet, a Stepford wife-a Murmurs her music into the front-facing camera of her phone.) She pouted as she sang, wearing lace and gold and crosses, looking likeĪ self-composed collage. music videos that made her famous,ĭel Rey intercut Webcam clips of herself with archival footage ofĪmerican iconography: palm trees, Vegas neon, roses blooming, police, In “ Blue Jeans” and “ Video Games,” the D.I.Y. Rendered through a narrow set of intertwined cultural tropes. Seeing,” Berger wrote that a woman is “almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself.” Since she entered the pop ecosystem, in 2011,ĭel Rey’s career has been defined by extravagant self-consciousness, Lana Del Rey always makes me think about John Berger, the writer andĬritic who died this past January, at the age of ninety.
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