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DAY 250 | SOCIAL & POLITICAL COMMENTARY |
Discontent
MARIE LOSES HER HEAD
Social discontent raises its head as protest, a desire for change—better wages, safer working environments, basic education, improved living conditions. Discontent is a marker of evolution, a way of showing dissatisfaction, and an aspiration toward improvement, a point of adjustment in social structure. Defining discontent as a lack of contentment leads the photographer to search for basic social standards for showing this lack—the protest, the argument, situations revealing discomfort, annoyance, grievance.
Historically, Marie Antoinette is seen as a symbol of discontent. ...
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