Mla Mayer Body Image Analysis

In this image from a 2013 photoshoot for Vogue Magazine, Marissa Mayer, backwardly sprawls across white chaise lounge chair while laying upside down. In her hand, an iPad-like tablet is depicted with an enhanced image of Mayer’s face displayed on it. Everything about her from her chair to her dress to her makeup is very angular and cutting edge, while the lawn background behind her is particularly organic and soft. Two vividly red flowers in pots stand on both sides of her as well. The dress she is wearing is particularly high-fashion and not an average person’s every day work attire. As the CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer has become a renowned business woman in the technology world, and therefore her face on the tablet seems to represent this upstanding position that she holds. Another interpretation could be that her face on the iPad stresses that Mayer, being a woman, has both a body and a brain; she is trying to show the world that although she is this powerful and distinguished CEO, she is also a feminine woman; she is just as powerful a female as she is a CEO. Another depiction of Mayer’s doubled face is that it may be that she wants more attention on her, for herself, her image, or her
The vividly green lawn with homey flower pots surrounding the hospitable lawn chair would seem to create a sense of comfort and approachability. However, the attire that Mayer is clothed in contradicts this relaxed impression. Her high-end shoes create a more sophisticated and unapproachable tone. Mayer’s adept presence in contrast to the seemingly relaxed setting may be to emphasize that although she is participating in something that is considered trivial in her field, i.e. modeling, she is still upholding her victorious place as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. This strong contrast could be incorporated in order to give off the sensation that she is an untouchable force in her