lutz response

In the article The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes: The Example of National Geographic, Lutz and Collins write there are seven kinds of gazes including the photographer's gaze, the institutional, magazine gaze and the reader's gaze. They also write that image producers at National Geographic are mostly white and male and the reader's come from a wide range of social positions within American society. The magazine's gaze drills down to include (1) the editor's decision to commission arils on certain locations or issues, selecting a limited number of photographs from a large group and the layout decisions (cropping, arrangement with other photos, size and altering). If the image producers were non-white or/and female, would this change how the photographer's gaze is chosen?
In both the Lutz and Collins article and in Notes on the Gaze by Daniel Chanlder, it has been mentioned that someone who is culturally defined as weak (women, children, poor, tribal vs modern, people of color) are more likely to face the camera. The more powerful are more likely to be looking somewhere else. Mostly likely those culturally defined as weak do not think of themselves as weak. Could it be that the more powerful are embarrassed by their power and cannot look the camera in the eye since the camera serves as a mirror?
Lutz and Collins write that users recognized that the camera was a form of power. They write that pictures in National Geographic that put the camera in the hands of "the other" suggest little danger and many pictures show the native's use of the camera as amusing or quaint. Yet, do the unhappy and coerced Maca Indians from the Colonia Juan Belaieff Island in the Paraguay River near Asuncion who charge to take photographs with tourists feel empowered by the camera? Or has the camera allowed them to become another commodity?
In Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey, she writes that "socially established interpretations of sexual differences control images, erotic ways of looking and spectacle". In a patriarchal society, the active male gaze is on the passive image of a woman. In terms of the male gaze, I could not help but think that if women filmed The Ax Fight instead of men, would there have been so many shots of bare breasted women? Would a woman filmmaker filmed in a different way to get the point across? For example, near the end of the film when the woman is cursing and yelling at other side, would a woman filmmaker used a close up shot?