National Geographic (Slavik S)

In the article “THE CONFIDENT GAZE” by DR.SHEKHAR DESHPANDE we read about the National Geographic magazine.
It is the magazine that is view by a lot of Americans and well-liked for its photographs and worlds explorations, ect.
“While we admire the accomplishments of its photographers to bring us the rest of the world, we forget that the photographs and the contexts in which they are placed represent a very conscious by the editors to make the world a happy place and a happy place especially for the western eye”. (page 2) The author tells us about the magazine and its values in America. The magazine shows Americans what they want to see. As we look at the pictures in the magazine we often compare ourselves and in the most, if not all pictures we see ourselves being lucky and having better life.

In another part of the article author states: “Human suffering becomes worth a good image.” This means that suffrage is valuable in this magazine. Also, Americans look at another part of the magazine, where Deshpande states: “The idea of progress is always in terms of weather the others have taken steps to be “Western.” (page3) Again we tend to compare ourselves to others while viewing the images from the magazine.