Commodification of the female body: a study on the fotographic image of naked woman

This paper reports a survey conducted during 2009 based on the fundamentals of phenomenology. The object of study was naked female body displayed as an art form in "Playboy" magazine published in 2008. The method used was Photographic Analysis of Roland Barthes (2005), which seems photography as a phenomenon capable of being analyzed and that composes the picture of the so-called Cultural Industry. This article deals specially with the female body in contemporary society, its standardized aesthetic constitution and the mechanisms of depreciation to which it is submitted.