Thanks Hille. I quite liked some of the images, although I didn't spot
much critique as they were conventionally gendered (and some featured
violence against women). The implicit voyeurism was more in the vein of
schoolboyish let's-look-up-ladies'-skirts gags which didn't really work
for me.
The only emergency I could spot was a nutritional one... somebody needs
to feed those female models!
Kirstie
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Sent: 25 September 2006 09:47
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Subject: Re: Chic and sexy surveillance in Vogue
Dear Hille, dear David, dear all,
ad campaigns combining glamour, surveillance & paranoia are not a new
phenomenon. Eric Howeler gives some more exapmles of this in an article
on "paranoid chic" (www.loudpapermag.com/article.php?id=16). For the
rest I agree with David's and Hille's comments.
Dietmar
D F J Wood schrieb:
> 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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>> Sent: 25 September 2006 00:13
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>> Subject: Chic and sexy surveillance in Vogue
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>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> 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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