Book Interpretation- New Yorker

The book starts off by saying that there are four women standing in a row wearing bathing suits and all looking off into the distance and not making eye contact with the person who would be looking at this cover. They then talk about the woman with the dark hair that is tied up into a bun as opposed to the long flowing hair like the other three women. The women with the long flowing hair each have big smiles, while the dark haired women has her eyes slightly closed that are under arched eyebrows. The dark haired woman has dark eye makeup with sharply angular cheeks with a deep beauty mark and is wearing a two piece bathing suit and not a one piece like the blondes who have full round cheeks. Their breasts are round and full, while the dark haired woman has pointed and angular breasts. Details that repeat are large wide open eyes, long blonde hair, small straight eyebrows, wide open smiles, three banners ending in a, and round breasts, and the shading on the women. The book then connects the photo to the presidential election of 2000 between Bush and Gore and what states supported them in the election. It then states that the women are all looking out into the distance perhaps at some audience or judges. The photo portrays a New Yorker like they are full of themselves, or even represent the dark haired woman as an evil stepmother. The cover can also portray the blondes as being dumb with their wide smiles. It can also represent immigrants as being darker than the lighter Europeans, it can be linked to ancestry and racism. Finally, it can represent Americans as thinking that they are somewhat cooler than others, but that they don't have to be so obvious about it.

The difference between my interpretation and the books interpretation is that they connected to a political stance due to the time that it was printed in. I took the picture and interpreted it as a representation of New Yorkers as a whole. They also connected the picture to a fairy tale, "Snow White" as the New Yorker being an evil stepmother as I just connected to one certain type of person. I interpreted the picture as a representation of people from New York without making any connection to any other person.