Quite amazing... and yet oddly uncompelling after a few shots. This is
so completely devoid of any real politics: an appropriated aesthetic of
security and surveillance layered onto the utter vacuity of high
fashion. I can't see any critique at all, nor even fantasy, more just a
parade of the usual banal sexless models, slick and mundane 'eroticism'
and trying-very-hard-to-be-shocking-but-we-are-all-so-bored situations.
I think your final suggestion is the correct analysis... the spectacle
consuming itself.
David.
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>Dear all,
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>have a look at this - it's worth it!
>
>http://www.voguevanity.it/cont/060hvg/
>
>Just click into the 'State of Emergency' and you'll find a
>series of 15 photographs of which it is really hard to believe
>that all this was shot in the name of selling fashion.
>
>The controversial Vogue photographer Steven Meisel contributes
>in criticizing the surveillance society? Or in turning
>policing and airport screening into a perfect S/M fantasy? Or
>'the image against image' competition has got so fierce that
>you'll do anything? Don't really know, but appreciate if
>anyone wishes to discuss this.
>
>- hille
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