Abstract

Generally, American society’s references of what is considered beautiful is based on what is presented in different forms of media, from women’s fashion magazines to different television shows and movies and from these references comes the unspoken connotation that those featured meet society’s standards of beauty, but how about those who might not? In conjunction with this subject, discussions continue criticizing the general lack of a diversity of Black women’s images in American media. One underlining query stemming from both subjects goes to what is considered beautiful; hence an experiment was carried out using photography as the medium through which viewers identified how they saw Black women’s images.