Maternity Photography: The Construction of Maternal Beauty Captured in Pregnant Photography

Chapter 8: Concluding Remarks

A photograph is something as simple as a moment in time captured to remember. It offers a portal into the past and digs into the memory...

Chapter 8: My Work in the Area of Maternity Photography

I have been a photographer for over 10 years and have been capturing professional portraits for about two years under the company name of...

Chapter 7: Maternity Photography and Social Media

With the rise of the digital age, society bares witness to an ever changing and ever advancing technological culture. With these...

Chapter 6: Post-Demi Moore Photo Era (1991-Present)

“In the age of the smartphone, the internet, social media and rolling twenty-four-hour news, the photograph is at the center of our...

Chapter 5: The Demi Moore Photo Era (August, 1991)

“And yet the image is vital to our history of the mother figure for it was the first to objectify the pregnant form in mainstream...

Chapter 4: The Pre-Demi Moore Photograph Era (Prior to August, 1991)

“Rather than celebrating the body of woman with child, [medical photography] illustrates a somewhat more shame-ridden identity. Such...

Chapter 3: Early Maternity Photography

Photography as an art form has expansive outlets and avenues in which it can stem off to. From landscape, to portraiture, to action and...

Chapter 2: Introduction: The Effects of Photography

“An image is a sight which has been recreated or reproduced. It is an appearance, or a set of appearances, which has been detached from...

Chapter 1: Abstract

The premise of photography is capturing a single moment in time to be reflected upon at a later date. Often times these moments are those...

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