Well a couple of his model's had eaten that month, at least...(posted 8807 days ago)I like his technique (obviously borrowed from the 'flat fashion' books), and his colourcasts to all his prints. The colour really speaks to me.
Compte is definitely a fashion photographer to the end in these photos, I agree. But maybe one of the reasons I like him is because he is sort of tame, compared to Newton for example. Art is an escape for me sometimes, especially when viewing someone else's art, and if nothing else M.C.'s art allows me to escape, with what are obvious idealizations hinged on a Nan Goldin sort of backdrop. I love Goldin and Newton, but I can only look at their images for so long because they draw me in too much. As I sort of noted in my earlier post, Comte allows me a 'distance of objectivity and lack of true emotion', if I can put it like that, which I find appealing and which 'takes me away'...wicked witches and wonderful wizards aside.
shawn